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Significados de pettifogging em inglês

Carping.

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Examples for "carping"
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In the Presidential debate Carter came across as carping, pinched and humorless.
The new yorker
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No carping: glad to share the spotlight with the newspaper of record.
Wired
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Priestley was a West Yorkshireman, built for a certain kind of carping.
The Guardian
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Their carping, quarrelsome attitude had taken all the pleasure from knowing them.
Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman
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Shall we never have done with this carping at people who succeed?
A Little Journey in the World
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But he didn't want to complicate an already delicate situation by quibbling.
Anthill: a novel
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There's no Gallagher-esque quibbling rivalry, nor does one brother take obvious charge.
The Guardian
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Your quibbling is childish and unbecoming to a man of your age.
Jess of the Rebel Trail
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This was no time for quibbling-notime for nice shadings of propriety.
The Seventh Noon
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Against Arsenal, Mourinho was probably alone in quibbling with the result.
Reuters
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In light of an incredible 2014 for Seattle however, this is nitpicking.
The Guardian
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Annoyed and frustrated, Ryan had passed the time nitpicking everything I said.
206 Bones
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But Eco manages to make these sorts of nitpicking interludes progressively beguiling.
The Guardian
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This would all seem like nitpicking if the stakes weren't so high.
Wired
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In a sense he is right, but it's the nitpicking debater talking here.
The Guardian
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Nothing is said so simply that it cannot be distorted by caviling.
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
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There will be no caviling at the satisfying antiquity of Fuenterrabia.
A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
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These are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can be no caviling.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865
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You are a captious, caviling, carping, crabbed, contentious, cantankerous chap.
Dear Enemy
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How fond she was of caviling at Christian lives!
Four Girls at Chautauqua
Uso de pettifogging em inglês
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He believed in fair play and despised sharp practice and pettifogging tricks.
The Life of Stephen A. Douglas
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Jack considered him more of a pettifogging bureaucrat than an intelligence officer.
Death angel
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We can't help it; we put the pettifogging first and the people second.
Ghost Story
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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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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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Then what is all your pettifogging about technicalities worth?
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) / Includin...
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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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To accept lightly the gifts and legacies offered was to lay himself open to expensive pettifogging.
Saint Augustin
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But if they are then subjected to literate pettifogging, all this effort is to no avail.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
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