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; How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. ... Link to this page: Please bookmark with social media, your votes are noticed and appreciated: ... To act like a pettifogger. See Synonyms at quibble.
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www.thefreedictionary.com/pettifog
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Definition of pettifogger from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... Etymology: probably from petty + obsolete English fogger pettifogger...
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Britannica Online Encyclopedia ... One entry found. ... : a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger...
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Pettifogger - Definition of Pettifogger at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Pettifogger. Look it up now! ... Use pettifogger in a Sentence...
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The noun "pettifogger" has 2 senses in WordNet. 1. shyster, pettifogger -- (a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods) 2. quibbler, caviller, caviler, pettifogger -- (a disputant who quibbles;
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Definition of pettifogger from Webster's New World College Dictionary. Meaning of pettifogger. Pronunciation of pettifogger. Definition of the word pettifogger. Origin of the word pettifogger. ... Dictionary Home » Webster's New World College Dictionary » pettifogger...
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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary ... Singular; pettifogger ... 1885: …yet he has never sought by browbeating and other arts of the pettifogger, to confuse, baffle, and bewilder a witness… The Bay State Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 6...
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pettifogger \PET-ee-fog-ur\ noun; 1 : a lawyer whose methods are petty, underhanded, or disreputable : shyster ... Could you use that in a sentence, please? Sure. Charles Dickens’s Uriah Heep was a complete pettifogger, an unctuous villain whose name became a byword for a falsely humble hypocrite.
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blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/01/24/pettifogger/
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pettifogger n. A petty, quibbling, unscrupulous lawyer. One who quibbles over trivia. [Probably PETTY + obsolete fogger , pettifogger.] pettifoggery ... WordNet: pettifogger...
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