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Webster 1913 Edition

Pettifoggery

Pet′ti-fogˊger-y

,

Noun.

;

pl.

pettifoggeries

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The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles; chicanery.

Quirks of law, and

pettifoggeries

.

Barrow.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pettifoggery

PET'TIFOGGERY

,

Noun.

The practice of a pettifogger; tricks; quibbles.

Definition 2024

pettifoggery

pettifoggery

English

Noun

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.

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