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pettifogging

noun

pettifogging

noun
1

pettifoggery

  • […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
  • It's lots of other pettifogging, degrading things. Things you have to endure, things you never have to think about until they happen to you.1967, Agatha Christie, Endless Night:

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