Pettifogging is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PETTIFOGGING in dictionary:

VERB:
• practise legal deception or trickery
• quibble about petty points
NOUN:
• the act of pettifogging
• Pettifoggery.
ADJECTIVE:
• Paltry; quibbling; mean.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to quibble

Words related to PETTIFOGGING

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Words that contain PETTIFOGGING

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How to use PETTIFOGGING in a sentence

• During this time the heroic Assembly was pettifogging at Versailles, and the Government was going to join them.
• But, unwittingly, I have ennobled, by grand historical comparisons, this prying, pettifogging, Irish-informer of a master-at-arms.
• Little pettifogging personal equations and jobs occupy the whole of their time, except when they are engaged upon the congenial task of trying to thwart the Supreme Governor.
• But, as we know, there are certain pettifogging men of law who are ever ready to encourage people to bring actions for libel for the mere sake of getting damages.
• He would have put the whole under our judicial courts, and thereby have created a middle class of pettifogging attorneys to swallow up all the surplus produce of the land.
• He, poor soul, stunned but not convinced, clings desperately to some pettifogging convictions which he calls truth, and refuses a clearer vision.
• Which is the shallower, indeed, the criticism that harps on disagreements in such narratives, or the pettifogging that strives to reconcile them, one can hardly tell.
• There are districts where the pettifogging man of business, known as Lawyer So-and-So, is still to be found.
• And for that reason I must have a wealthy notary, highly thought of, a man above the temptations to which pettifogging lawyers yield.
• Their President is a low person, and all their ideas of government are pettifogging.
• Had Scotland resisted tyranny without this would-be biblical pettifogging Covenant, her condition would have been the more gracious.
• The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries.
• The honorable profession of law dwindled into pettifogging tricks.

Similar words containing PETTIFOGG without suffix ing

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