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Significados de pettifogger en inglés

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A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.

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        A person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods.

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              Uso de pettifogger en inglés
              1
              You seem to think you are talking to some other pettifogger.
              The Virginians
              2
              He perhaps mistakes me for what you call a-a pettifogger, is it not?
              A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
              3
              Bringing John D. Rockefeller's own personal pettifogger with him too.
              Serena
              4
              Stephen Hawk, the ex-district attorney: boomer, pettifogger, promoter- achartermember of the Gaston wolf-pack
              The Grafters
              5
              The tetrarch sank to rise a pettifogger, a spendthrift, ruined by his own follies.
              The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
              6
              He was a pettifogger; their (the Smiths') cat-paw to do their dirty work.
              The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Y...
              7
              He had none of the arts of the pettifogger.
              Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
              8
              But mark the superiority of British law, and see how the black pettifogger was defeated.
              George Cruikshank
              9
              Are you, sir, to be bothered by this pettifogger?
              Sevenoaks: A Story of Today
              10
              The pettifogger must give place to the jurist.
              The Call of the Twentieth Century, an Address to Young Men
              11
              Uncle Edmund was a farmer and a pettifogger.
              Our Friend John Burroughs
              12
              To the young lady of to-day, belike, she will seem accordingly ridiculous-seempoor-spirited, and a pettifogger.
              Yet Again
              13
              A curse upon every pettifogger in the world!
              Debts of Honor
              14
              Why, listen to this fellow Bold, and that other low pettifogger, Finney;-andget up this petition too.
              The Warden
              15
              You wouldn't want to be a pettifogger.
              A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
              16
              A pettifogger- amiserablelow-born, low-bred, Liverpool pettifogger!
              The Living Link: A Novel
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              Pettifogger a través del tiempo