pettifoggery

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[edit] English

[edit] Noun

Singular
pettifoggery

Plural
pettifoggeries

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.

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