How To Use pettifog In A Sentence
- Yet Phil Woolas, the immigration minister (and, as I well remember a nasty little self-centred careerist when he was head of the National Union Students in my college days - a real horrible little greasy pole climber who obviously hasn't changed one jot) continues to prevaricate and pettifog. Global Voices in English » The Gurkhas: Long History Of Discrimination
- The unintended consequence is empowerment of the moneyed few that can still afford the overpriced beltway pettifogger who knows the ropes. Stuart Whatley: This Side of Democracy
- That is not literary criticism; that is pettifoggery. The Indonesian Way
- Thus women could practice law in some areas or cases at the level of amateur pettifoggers, a situation that led some western observers to believe that the Russian legal profession was much more open to women than it was.
- The chief pettifogger and Energizer Bunny for the pro-Clinton forces was political strategist James Carville, whose official title was Senior Political Adviser to the President. Blood Sugar
- One of the many pettifogging annoyances of being a chap is the complete inability to explain how one would like one's hair cut.
- These concerns for purity should not be understood as pettifogging legalism.
- The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing is a product of the pointy-headed wowsers at the Association of American University Presses who established a Task Force on Bias-Free Language filled with cranks, pokenoses, blowhards, four-flushers, and pettifogs. P.J. O’Wowser
- The popular understanding of the word _criticize_ is to find fault, to pettifog. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
- The advice given yesterday with an assurance that only a settled and undoubting conviction could possibly excuse, was to-day pettifogged away mainly on the ground of Charley's worldly prosperity. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York
