pettifogger

How To Use pettifogger In A Sentence

• The rest of Dr.T. 's epistle is pettifoggery, but I am surprised that a scholarly person, who should be conversant with the findings of modern Russian history (from Kliuchevsky onward to Crankshaw), would defend the wholly discredited Romanov dynasty, which inflicted such continuous harm on Russian culture. Cranberry Jello
• Under the blow and forbiddance from the government, secret pettifogger handbooks of the Ming and Qing Dynasty didn t disappear, but become perfect and systematic.
• The theological pettifoggery of their literalistic religion has to be read to be believed.
• Hopeless to seek either direct or indirect cooperation here; the man seemed a living definition of pettifoggery. Trullion: Alastor 2262
• I don't know what Mr. Samuels is getting at, but do I smell a whiff of pettifoggery here? The Indonesian Way
• He had long been reading law in his curious, spasmodically concentrated way, and he had practised a little as a "pettifogger," that is, an unlicensed practitioner in the inferior courts. Abraham Lincoln
• Before this I had ventured to try a few law cases before justices of the peace, both in the country, in villages, and in the city, and I had some professional triumphs, occasionally over a regular attorney, but more commonly meeting the "pettifogger," who was of Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
• When a sergeant at the Police Academy asked Mr. Conlon if he had really attended Harvard, he replied with a pettifoggery worthy of his white-shoe classmates: "Not lately, Sarge" is the literal truth camouflaged as sarcasm. A Quietly Remarkable Memoir Walks a Beat From H.U. to NYPD
• Rehnquist's disdain for drawn-out cases and pettifoggery by lawyers is legendary. A President In The Dock
• Of such squeamish pettifoggery are cultural declines made! Socialist Hate Speech of Antiquity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty