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pettifogger

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɛtɪˌfɒɡə/Part of speech nounSorted eefggioprttStarts with PEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections

Used in a sentence

  • Hence the cunning measure of appointing as ambassador some political pettifogger skilled in delays, sophisms, and misapprehensions, and dexterous in the art of baffling argument.
  • "An inn, or a tavern . . . these are places where greasy citizens take pipe and pot, where the knavish pettifoggers of the law spunge on their most unhappy victims.
  • This gentleman (for such he was, however strange ladies who class country attorneys with vulgar pettifoggers in fashionable novels may deem the assertion) was the son of a brave officer,...

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