Thesaurus / pettifogging
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synonyms for pettifogging
- altercate
- argufy
- avoid
- bicker
- carp
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- hassle
- niggle
- nitpick
- pretend
- prevaricate
- shift
- spar
- squabble
- waffle
- wrangle
- argue over
- blow hot and cold
- catch at straws
- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
- make a big thing about
- nit-pick
- paralogize
- pick to pieces
- put up an argument
- set to
- split hairs
- talk back
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He is only a pettifogging country Squire, whose views on the Land Question are ob-solete in tot-to.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSDare not say it is, or I will, upon the spot, divorce your pettifogging soul from your carrion carcass!
THE FORTUNES OF NIGELSIR WALTER SCOTTBy conforming to the Laws of this Universe; instead of trying by pettifogging to evade and profitably contradict them.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. III. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLEI think you're nothing but a pettifogging lawyer—that there ain't no partner, and I'm no better'n a fool to talk to you.
MAX FARGUSOWEN JOHNSONThe pettifogging objections to some social plan had very little chance of survival owing to the dynamic power of the reformers.
A PREFACE TO POLITICSWALTER LIPPMANNLooked at with the unclouded eye of a mystic, how mundane and unnecessary all these pettifogging transactions seemed.
SHANDYGAFFCHRISTOPHER MORLEYThe old procureur and his president applied all their pettifogging cunning to lowering the debate.
HISTORY OF THE COMMUNE OF 1871P. LISSAGARYI have work for you––not to serve any one with a writ; assign; bring an action, or any of your rascally, pettifogging tricks!
THE STROLLERSFREDERIC S. ISHAMAt once he gained a little practice, pettifogging before a justice of the peace for friends, without expecting a fee.
THE PAPERS AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOLUME ONEABRAHAM LINCOLNThere are districts where the pettifogging man of business, known as Lawyer So-and-So, is still to be found.
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WORDS RELATED TO PETTIFOGGING
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- peanut
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- peanut
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- peanut
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inconsiderable
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- paltry
- peanut
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
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