pettifoggers
- plural of pettifogger.
Example Sentences
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Quoting from Thomas Jefferson's diary reference to "soliciting pettifoggers," Joe Stamper of Antlers, Okla., urged his fellow lawyers not to "equate legal services with soap and breakfast foods."
From Time Magazine Archive
This would still the voices of those pettifoggers who will protest that Oswald was not actually proved guilty in a court of law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the habits of unprincipled advocates in law courts are naturalized in Senates, and pettifoggers wrangle there, when the fate of the nation and the lives of millions are at stake.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
Petty courts were instituted to take cognizance of petty offences, pettifoggers began to abound, and the community was soon set together by the ears.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Irving, Washington
The surgeons are atomies and pettifoggers, who kill more than they cure.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
