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Significados de pettifog en inglés

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Argue over petty things.

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        Examples for "squabble"
        Examples for "squabble"
        1
        The politicians just shout and squabble and all of Europe knows it.
        Reuters
        2
        Cross-border banks may prove harder to resolve if authorities squabble over losses.
        Reuters
        3
        Later we may squabble, just the way I do with Walt now.
        Earth Abides
        4
        Now divine attention has become a resource that they must squabble for.
        Children of Time
        5
        Once they are in there they can talk and squabble for hours.
        The Irish Times
        1
        He was right, of course, and there was no time to quibble.
        The White Road
        2
        You're in no position to talk of rights or quibble about titles.
        Lily of the Nile
        3
        There was barely a quibble about the charges during the information morning.
        Independent.ie
        4
        The woman was too downright in her honesty to quibble or fence.
        The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
        5
        But it is needless to quibble at a definition of the term.
        Literary Lapses
        1
        Before we can bicker any further, the sheriff walks into the courtroom.
        Lone Wolf
        2
        He could not bear to hear his parents bicker any longer.
        William and harry
        3
        They can bicker and brawl to their hearts' content, it makes no difference.
        Helen of troy
        4
        It is never good news when two of the world's biggest economies bicker.
        Reuters
        5
        The current suspects get to bicker in a stylish basement with insulated walls.
        The Irish Times
        1
        It's possible that one outstanding niggle may resurface; if so, avoid overreacting.
        The South African
        2
        He felt a niggle of worry every time he thought of her.
        King rolen's kin: the uncrowned king
        3
        I remembered another niggle-odeon line from an earlier Spithill interview I did.
        Radio NZ
        4
        Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster said: Johnny has a lower-leg niggle.
        The Irish Times
        5
        However, one small niggle has been thrown up by the event.
        Radio NZ
        1
        His wrath at their babble and petty brabble doubted that they did.
        One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3
        2
        There will be a great brabble about it.'
        Sovereign
        3
        Other whites take part in our brabbles, while temper holds out, with a certain schoolboy entertainment.
        A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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        All their debates were pacified by him; he put an end to their brabbling suits at law and wrangling differences.
        Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
        5
        He had hailed even the Treaty of Utrecht with welcome, in hopes it might at least end these Northern brabbles.
        History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04
        Uso de pettifog en inglés
        1
        It wouldn't do me any good to pettifog in this matter.
        Opening a Chestnut Burr
        2
        Lanny, you, with all your intellect-whenyou know the oath as well as I-youpettifog like that!
        The Last Shot
        3
        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; ...
        8
        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
        10
        The honorable profession of law dwindled into pettifogging tricks.
        The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
        11
        Why do we call them pettifogging and dismiss them?
        The Titan
        12
        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
        16
        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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        Translations for pettifog
        Pettifog a través del tiempo