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Pettifog   Listen
verb
Pettifog  v. t.  To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim. (Colloq.)


Pettifog  v. i.  (past & past part. pettifogged; pres. part. pettifogging)  
1.
To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. "He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis."
2.
To debate or quarrel over unimportant, trifling matters.
3.
To use subterfuge, deception, or flattery for any purpose; to practice chicanery.





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"Pettifog" Quotes from Famous Books



... with all your intellect—when you know the oath as well as I—you pettifog like that! The oath says to appeal to justice and reason even after the first blow is struck. Why doesn't our premier appeal to ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... your intellect—when you know the oath as well as I—you pettifog like that! The oath says to appeal to justice and reason even after the first blow is struck. Why doesn't our premier appeal to the ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... cares a button about is this, Shall woman be allowed to participate in your World's Temperance Convention on a footing of perfect equality with man? If yea, the whole dispute turns on nothing, and isn't worth six lines in The Tribune. But if it was and is the purpose of those for whom you pettifog to keep woman off the platform of that Convention, and deny her any part in its proceedings except as a spectator, what does all your talk about Higginson's untimeliness and the Committees being full amount to? Why not treat the subject ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage


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