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Значения термина pettifogging на английском

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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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