Pettifogging [verb]
Definition of Pettifogging:
quibble
Synonyms of Pettifogging:
● Niggle
● Bicker
● Wrangle
● Hassle
● Fence
● Avoid
● Spar
● Dispute
● Cavil
● Squabble
● Nitpick
● Carp
● Waffle
● Shift
● Pretend
● Evade
● Chicane
● Argufy
● Nit-pick
● Set to
Sentence/Example of Pettifogging:
The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods.
Why, you would not take such a pettifogging advantage of an old comrade as that.
It was just as well not to have a pettifogging lawyer to deal with.
None of your pettifogging tribe for me: I shall step to the front, and stay there.
The pettifogging of disobliging illwill could go no further.
A snap judgment was to be taken by these pettifogging diplomats.
They will go on with their pettifogging and their pawnbroking, and that is enough reward for them.
Their President is a low person, and all their ideas of government are pettifogging.
But there is a pettifogging cult about that says you ought to know these things; moreover, children keep on asking one.
Then what is all your pettifogging about technicalities worth?