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Significados de pettifog en inglés

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Argue over petty things.

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Uso de pettifog en inglés
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It wouldn't do me any good to pettifog in this matter.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
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Lanny, you, with all your intellect-whenyou know the oath as well as I-youpettifog like that!
The Last Shot
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The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods.
The Root of Evil
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The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries.
The Ramrodders: A Novel
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Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of pettifogging.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
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She gave the impression of vibrating with impatience and cried out, That's pettifogging.
The Brimming Cup
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If he was an exacting moralist, he was never a narrow or pettifogging one.
Sketches from Concord and Appledore / Concord thirty years ago; ...
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He is a common-barreter for his pleasure, that takes no money, but pettifogs gratis.
Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
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Against a parcel of imbeciles who are pettifogging from morning till night in their hovels.
The Companions of Jehu
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The honorable profession of law dwindled into pettifogging tricks.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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Why do we call them pettifogging and dismiss them?
The Titan
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You are an idiot yourself, pettifogging lawyer, base man!
Crime and Punishment
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Why, my dear sir, I have known him as a pettifogging money-lender in India for years.
Roger Ingleton, Minor
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But, unwittingly, I have ennobled, by grand historical comparisons, this prying, pettifogging, Irish-informer of a master-at-arms.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
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Sometimes one has these pettifogging personal vanities.
The Red Planet
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From her memoirs we might gather that Danton was a poverty-stricken, pettifogging lawyer of the basest class.
East of Paris: Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champa...
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