About The Word Pettifoggery
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Pettifoggery
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What's The Definition Of Pettifoggery?Synonyms | Synonyms for Pettifoggery: Related Terms | Find terms related to Pettifoggery: artifice | bickering | boggling | captiousness | caviling | chicane | chicanery | collusion | connivance | connivery | conspiracy | covin | dodgery | dodging | equivocation | evasion | fencing | foul play | hairsplitting | hedging | logic-chopping | machination | nit-picking | paltering | parrying | pettifogging | prevarication | pussyfooting | quibbling | sharp practice | shifting | shuffling | sidestepping | skulduggery | sleight | subterfuge | supercherie | tergiversation | trichoschistism | trickery | underhand dealing See Also | Pettifoggery In Webster's Dictionary \Pet"ti*fog`ger*y\, n.; pl. -{ies}.
The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks;
quibbles.
Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. --Barrow.
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