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Meanings of
pettifogging
in English
Carping.
carping
quibbling
nitpicking
caviling
Related terms
critical
Usage of
pettifogging
in English
1
He believed in fair play and despised sharp practice and
pettifogging
tricks.
2
Jack considered him more of a
pettifogging
bureaucrat than an intelligence officer.
3
We can't help it; we put the
pettifogging
first and the people second.
4
The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for
pettifogging
methods.
5
The opposition did not propose to waste effort on
pettifogging
preliminaries.
6
Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of
pettifogging
.
7
She gave the impression of vibrating with impatience and cried out, That's
pettifogging
.
8
If he was an exacting moralist, he was never a narrow or
pettifogging
one.
9
Against a parcel of imbeciles who are
pettifogging
from morning till night in their hovels.
10
The honorable profession of law dwindled into
pettifogging
tricks.
11
Why do we call them
pettifogging
and dismiss them?
12
Then what is all your
pettifogging
about technicalities worth?
13
You are an idiot yourself,
pettifogging
lawyer, base man!
14
Why, my dear sir, I have known him as a
pettifogging
money-lender in India for years.
15
To accept lightly the gifts and legacies offered was to lay himself open to expensive
pettifogging
.
16
But if they are then subjected to literate
pettifogging
,
all this effort is to no avail.
Other examples for "pettifogging"
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pettifogging
pettifogg
Verb
Present
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
characteristic pettifogging
describe this pettifogging
expensive pettifogging
literate pettifogging
much pettifogging
More collocations
Pettifogging
through the time