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Meanings of pettifogging in English
Synonyms
Examples for "carping"
Examples for "carping"
1
In the Presidential debate Carter came across as carping, pinched and humorless.
2
No carping: glad to share the spotlight with the newspaper of record.
3
Priestley was a West Yorkshireman, built for a certain kind of carping.
4
Their carping, quarrelsome attitude had taken all the pleasure from knowing them.
5
Shall we never have done with this carping at people who succeed?
1
But he didn't want to complicate an already delicate situation by quibbling.
2
There's no Gallagher-esque quibbling rivalry, nor does one brother take obvious charge.
3
Your quibbling is childish and unbecoming to a man of your age.
4
This was no time for quibbling-notime for nice shadings of propriety.
5
Against Arsenal, Mourinho was probably alone in quibbling with the result.
1
In light of an incredible 2014 for Seattle however, this is nitpicking.
2
Annoyed and frustrated, Ryan had passed the time nitpicking everything I said.
3
But Eco manages to make these sorts of nitpicking interludes progressively beguiling.
4
This would all seem like nitpicking if the stakes weren't so high.
5
In a sense he is right, but it's the nitpicking debater talking here.
1
Nothing is said so simply that it cannot be distorted by caviling.
2
There will be no caviling at the satisfying antiquity of Fuenterrabia.
3
These are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can be no caviling.
4
You are a captious, caviling, carping, crabbed, contentious, cantankerous chap.
5
How fond she was of caviling at Christian lives!
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.
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Pettifogging through the time