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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

But what about the hundreds of thousands of minds that have been deformed forever by the incapable pettifoggers who have pretended to form them?

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

The lawyers are few; the pettifoggers are many.

From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Titcomb, Timothy

Estorgoʼs neighbours, instigated by native legal pettifoggers in Manila, raised endless lawsuits against him; his means were exhausted, and apparatus being wanted to work the mines, he had to abandon them.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John