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Examples of pettifoggery
pettifoggery
The partners in pettifoggery have yet to get their various stories straight.
From the washingtontimes.com
You can't, so you resort to pettifoggery to conceal your inability to prove your point.
From the swampland.time.com
Americans would get less debt and an end to the incessant pettifoggery over federal budgets.
From the businessweek.com
True, they need to wade through distressing amounts of obfuscation, exaggeration, demagoguery and pettifoggery in order to do it.
From the economist.com
Distaste for pettifoggery and the sometimes absurd judgments pronounced by the courts gradually drove him to break with the legal profession.
From the en.wikipedia.org
