- Look up pettifogger, pettifog, or
pettifoggery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Pettifogger may
refer to: L****n E. Pettifogger, a
character in the...
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frequently peppers her
vocabulary with
arcane words like "frippet" and "
pettifogging". As The Atlantic's
Amanda Walsh notes, she also "adopts an affectation...
- that no
contemporary Bollywood movie will – the
cynical ways in
which pettifogging politicians s**** to
derive electoral brownie points from the bravery...
- that in the
first decades after 1757, the
British had
transformed from "
pettifogging traders quarreling over
their seats in
church [...] into imperialist...
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sailor jack****
Stupid person, blunderhead; a
democrat jack-leg
lawyer A
pettifogging lawyer;
shyster jackpot A
corruption fund jag
State of intoxication,...
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characteristic of
Swabians or of Wurttemberg,
often seen as
proving their pettifogging obsession with order.[citation needed] In fact it
proves to be more of...
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opposite of well
known statements by Marx, Lenin,
Trotsky and others, part
pettifogging and
redundant restatement of the same
thing and
partly true observations...
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murderer with his own hands". He
developed the idea that "politicians" and "
pettifogging lawyers" were
standing in the way of peace, and all that was
needed to...
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still have
earned forgiveness by some
occasional departure from its
pettifogging consistency. But,
thanks to this consistence, the city is, of all great...
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could be identified, and
disloyal bureaucrats engaged in
pettifogging to
delay or halt the
dismissal process for others. Two days later, on...
