He is akin to the street boy in his habits, and to the pettifogger by fate. From Wordnik.com. [Le Colonel Chabert] Reference
Hobson suddenly rose from a penniless pettifogger to a position of affluence. From Wordnik.com. [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference
The tetrarch sank to rise a pettifogger, a spendthrift, ruined by his own follies. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Giving new meaning to the terms “Philadelphia Lawyer”, “pettifogger”, “law monger”. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Biden make a gaffe about a gaffe right in front of Obama...] Reference
Although now I have to thank you Andy Pandy because I'm now aware that I'm a pettifogger sense 2. From Wordnik.com. [Ambiguity: Mixed Messages and Style Overlap] Reference
A pettifogger is, if you don't know, a lawyer whose methods are petty, underhanded or disreputable. From Wordnik.com. [Coleen Rowley: The Law School Commencement Speech that Alberto Gonzales Did Not Give] Reference
From judge to jury, from the highest practitioner to the lowest pettifogger, there soon came to be but one impression. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
“Pray, who mentioned money, Mr. Meiklewham?” said her ladyship. — “That wretched old pettifogger,” she added in. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
In one case submitted to arbitration, a pettifogger of bad repute by the name of Baldwin secured an award palpably unjust. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Wondering: why people watch entertainment tv. .still .... that, and why words like pettifogger aren't used in the everyday anymore. From Wordnik.com. [stem-d Diary Entry] Reference
The unintended consequence is empowerment of the moneyed few that can still afford the overpriced beltway pettifogger who knows the ropes. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart Whatley: This Side of Democracy] Reference
Maigret had been surprised, the day before, to find such a young, practically unknown lawyer, in a house where he would have expected to meet a crafty old pettifogger. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Reluctant Witness]
Nay, rather a lawyer, or some pettifogger he doth seem. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6] Reference
"I don't know a single pettifogger in Tours," said Monsieur de. From Wordnik.com. [The Celibates] Reference
Negotiations were opened the next day between the pettifogger on. From Wordnik.com. [Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life] Reference
It is as clear as daylight, but the rascally pettifogger is there with. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
He perhaps mistakes me for what you call a-- a pettifogger, is it not?. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today] Reference
The pettifogger threatened that Lady Scatterbrain would run in debt, which. From Wordnik.com. [Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life] Reference
In the Common Pleas an ordinary pettifogger would often take a case away from him. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Sketches] Reference
But mark the superiority of British law, and see how the black pettifogger was defeated. From Wordnik.com. [George Cruikshank] Reference
Beethoven's brother Carl testamentary trustee to his nephew -- an intriguing lawsuit-pettifogger. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2] Reference
Herman, I like not this black-leg manner of proceeding: yet it augurs thou wilt be no pettifogger. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle] Reference
The affectation of order in the statement of facts had all the lucid method of an adroit pettifogger. From Wordnik.com. [Coningsby] Reference
Now which was the best pedigree, that of the son of the pastry-cook, or that of the son of the pettifogger?. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
Now, which was the best pedigree, that of the son of the pastry-cook, or that of the son of the pettifogger?. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'] Reference
"That wretched old pettifogger," she added in a whisper to Tyrrel, "thinks of nothing else but the filthy pelf.". From Wordnik.com. [St. Ronan's Well] Reference
To the young lady of to-day, belike, she will seem accordingly ridiculous -- seem poor-spirited, and a pettifogger. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Again] Reference
A pettifogger named Alexander Fitton, who had been detected in forgery, who had been fined for misconduct by the House of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
Dr. Pacher, an agent of Meyerbeer's, and a pettifogger of whose acquaintance later on I was to have no reason to be proud. From Wordnik.com. [My Life — Volume 1] Reference
The youth, before setting up for a gentleman, had been an attorney's apprentice, and was an arrant pettifogger in money matters. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference
But to hire out to impress people with another's theme is to be a pettifogger, and the genus pettifogger has nearly had his day. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers] Reference
Encisco, who was a pettifogger of the most pronounced type, would have dealt harshly with him, but there was nothing to do after all. From Wordnik.com. [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference
Mr. Tucker proved to be the pettifogger into whose hands Grafton had put his affairs, taking them from Mr. Dulany at Mr. Carvel's death. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Carvel — Complete] Reference
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