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pettifoggery

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɛti.fɒɡ.ə.ɹi/Part of speech nounSorted eefggioprttyStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a quarrel about petty points

Word origin

From pettifogger + -ery.

Used in a sentence

  • He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.
  • Yet even Harlan was to prove capable of grievous pettifoggery on the racial issue.
  • [Frankfurter's reasoning in Beauharnais v. Illinois] struck Black and the other three Roosevelt appointees who joined his dissent as noxious pettifoggery[.]

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