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Meanings of pettifoggery in English
Synonyms
Examples for "spat"
Examples for "spat"
1
The latest diplomatic spat came as violence along the Israel-Gaza border simmered.
2
Anyway, in this case, the number it spat out was your age.
3
I spat, none too pleased with my situation, press-ganged into mercenary service.
4
Following the spat, Trump signed an executive order to regulate social media.
5
This is Mr Trump's second high-profile spat with a female news anchor.
1
The league has come and gone without fuss; wait for the championship.
2
The newscaster had made a fuss over that issue also, of course.
3
Grandmother wanted most of all to save the family money & fuss.
4
There are often days when I want something tasty with minimal fuss.
5
Why all the fuss, if Ireland is fully funded until next year?
1
Well you young people are impressionable.' She again started moaning and bickering.
2
We know there was a long, earlier era of bickering machine probes.
3
And it represents a calamity far beyond the bickering of local lords.
4
The parents were bickering, perhaps about how she had gotten that way.
5
Einstein was the only thinker in a century gone mad from bickering.
1
The politicians just shout and squabble and all of Europe knows it.
2
Cross-border banks may prove harder to resolve if authorities squabble over losses.
3
Later we may squabble, just the way I do with Walt now.
4
Now divine attention has become a resource that they must squabble for.
5
Once they are in there they can talk and squabble for hours.
1
I do not think that I am in a tiff, Sir Francis.
2
He privately thought the girl might have gone off in a tiff.
3
They parted in a tiff-that'sthe way she got rid of him.
4
We had a slight tiff, and she has bolted off to Meran.
5
They had a little tiff on account of Johnson's Edition of Shakspeare.
1
Before we can bicker any further, the sheriff walks into the courtroom.
2
He could not bear to hear his parents bicker any longer.
3
They can bicker and brawl to their hearts' content, it makes no difference.
4
It is never good news when two of the world's biggest economies bicker.
5
The current suspects get to bicker in a stylish basement with insulated walls.
Usage of pettifoggery in English
1
Do you take for philosophy this twaddle, this intolerable pettifoggery adorned with a few scholastic trimmings?
2
"I must observe that this whole proceeding smacks of pettifoggery and chicanery."
Frequent collocations
Pettifoggery through the time