Sentence example with the word 'pettifogging'

pettifogging

Last update: August 4, 2015


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He was making pettifogging objections.   [Please select]

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"You are an idiot yourself, pettifogging lawyer, base man."   [Please select]

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Joseph deals with (though in much too pettifogging and logic-chopping a way) on pp.   [Please select]

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They declared that the members of Congress were "obscure, pettifogging attorneys, bankrupt shopkeepers, outlawed smugglers, etc."   [Please select]

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Had Scotland resisted tyranny without this would-be biblical pettifogging Covenant, her condition would have been the more gracious.   [Please select]

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It was hard, he thought, to be within sight of safety and almost of home, and to be baulked by the want of a few wretched shillings and by the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials.   [Please select]

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