pettifogger
noun
a person who engages in pettifogging.
pettifoggers
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pluralof pettifogger.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
One of them when he saw the pettifoggers putting their heads together, and lamenting their sad lot, up comes he and says: "Did not I tell you the Saturnalia could not last for ever?"
From Apocolocyntosis by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That precaution later he omitted, and paid the penalty of dealing in good faith with crowned and coroneted pettifoggers.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
When France was in the extremity of revolutionary agony, she was governed by an assembly of provincial pettifoggers, and Robespierre, Marat, and Couthon ruled in the place of Mirabeau, Vergniaud, and Carnot.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
