pettifoggery

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[edit] English

[edit] Noun

pettifoggery (plural pettifoggeries)

1. The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.

   He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.

[edit] Synonyms

• fuss
• quibble
• spat
• squabble
• tiff