How To Use Pettifogger In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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The theological pettifoggery of their literalistic religion has to be read to be believed.
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Hopeless to seek either direct or indirect cooperation here; the man seemed a living definition of pettifoggery.
Trullion: Alastor 2262
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I don't know what Mr. Samuels is getting at, but do I smell a whiff of pettifoggery here?
The Indonesian Way
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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
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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
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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
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Rehnquist's disdain for drawn-out cases and pettifoggery by lawyers is legendary.
A President In The Dock
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Of such squeamish pettifoggery are cultural declines made!
Socialist Hate Speech of Antiquity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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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
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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.
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That is not literary criticism; that is pettifoggery.
The Indonesian Way
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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
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This proves, according to Ezra, that conservative and Republican opposition to the current iteration of the individual mandate is just legal pettifoggery and political opportunism.
Give me liberty or give me health care
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While the law asserts otherwise, Truth's activism demonstrates the capacity of disfranchised Americans to seize legal agency, to demand a voice ‘among the pettifoggers.’
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And some want to have everything done accurately, while others are annoyed by accuracy, either because they cannot follow the connexion of thought or because they regard it as pettifoggery.
Metaphysics
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Giving new meaning to the terms “Philadelphia Lawyer”, “pettifogger”, “law monger”.
Watch Biden make a gaffe about a gaffe right in front of Obama...
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Well, we have words for people like that: nitpickers, fusspots, pettifoggers.
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Pettifoggery has come to mean legal chicanery, and last week a Senate subcommittee consultant used the word to describe a weakness of U.S. negotiators in dealing with Communist powers.
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Wondering: why people watch entertainment tv. .still .... that, and why words like pettifogger aren't used in the everyday anymore.
Stem-d Diary Entry
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Although now I have to thank you Andy Pandy because I'm now aware that I'm a pettifogger sense 2.
Ambiguity: Mixed Messages and Style Overlap
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“Pray, who mentioned money, Mr. Meiklewham?” said her ladyship. — “That wretched old pettifogger,” she added in
Saint Ronan's Well
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In such an argument there would always be matter for answers, rejoinders, replications, triplications, quadruplications, and that infinite web of disputes that our pettifoggers have spun out as far as they could in favor of lawsuits.
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Then there are Rice's own inconsistencies in her public statements, the transcripts of which are a gold mine of contradiction and pettifoggery.
April 2004
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To do otherwise faces America with the stark choice of going to War with Russia because some pettifogger who is Head of State in one of those Countries has a bone to pick, and picks it because NATO is with us, or withdrawing from the NATO Treaty rather than go to War.
Ilan Goldenberg: The Powell Endorsement and the End of the Republican Foreign Policy Establishment
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Seeing through Julia's pettifoggery, the judge overruled her frivolous objection.
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Ames's tavern sign, then, plays on the tension between lawyers with formal legal training like Dudley, and village tavern keepers and pettifoggers like Ames himself.