Dictionary Definition
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English
Noun
- The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial
quarrel.
- He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping,
machination,
nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifogging, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, sharp practice,
shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, skulduggery, sleight, subterfuge, supercherie, tergiversation, trichoschistism,
trickery, underhand
dealing