Sentence example with the word 'pettifoggery'

pettifoggery

artifice, caviling, connivance, dodgery, fencing, logic-chopping, parrying, quibbling, sidestepping, supercherie, underhand dealing

Definition n. a quarrel about petty points

Last update: October 6, 2015


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Do you take for philosophy this twaddle, this intolerable pettifoggery adorned with a few scholastic trimmings.   [Please select]

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Amid his atmosphere of pettifoggery, this rudimentary scholar, waging battle on life's acerbities, certainly paid no attention to the insect; at most, if he met it, he would crush it under foot.   [Please select]

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