pettifoggery
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Etymology [edit]
pettifogger + -y
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
pettifoggery (plural pettifoggeries)
- The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
- He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.