That is not literary criticism; that is pettifoggery. From Wordnik.com. [The Indonesian Way] Reference
Of such squeamish pettifoggery are cultural declines made!. From Wordnik.com. [Socialist Hate Speech of Antiquity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Rehnquist's disdain for drawn-out cases and pettifoggery by lawyers is legendary. From Wordnik.com. [A President In The Dock] Reference
I don't know what Mr. Samuels is getting at, but do I smell a whiff of pettifoggery here?. From Wordnik.com. [The Indonesian Way] Reference
Hopeless to seek either direct or indirect cooperation here; the man seemed a living definition of pettifoggery. From Wordnik.com. [Trullion: Alastor 2262]
In legal pettifoggery, it is not objective points which are weighed against one another; instead, concepts lead an entirely abstract fight. From Wordnik.com. [Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations] Reference
Then there are Rice's own inconsistencies in her public statements, the transcripts of which are a gold mine of contradiction and pettifoggery. From Wordnik.com. [April 2004] Reference
Honestly I'm really not trying to engage you in pettifoggery for fun. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Both are friends of the oppressed and haters of pedantry and pettifoggery. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
The partners in pettifoggery have yet to get their various stories straight. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
Do you take for philosophy this twaddle, this intolerable pettifoggery adorned with a few scholastic trimmings?. From Wordnik.com. [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference
Avocasserie (f) = pettifoggery (in French "mauvaise chicane d'avocat") un avocassier (une avocassière) = un mauvais avocat/a bad lawyer. From Wordnik.com. [avocat - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Silva -- for the "de" was acquired from the king after much pettifoggery on the part of that monarch with the prognathic jaw -- and he was of. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
But it's important to clear away the pettifoggery around what's actually causing -- and continuing to cause -- the collapse of the housing debt market. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
However, abandoning pettifoggery, Soudry soon found himself deputy king's attorney in a department of Bourgogne, and, in 1817, king's attorney under Attorney-General Bourlac, whom he replaced in. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference
"There is an express written contract here and, defendant's pettifoggery notwithstanding, plaintiff's core claims are based upon the alleged breach of that agreement," Judge Francis Allegra wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Courthouse News Service] Reference
Colonel of a glorious battalion of a famous regiment, a fellow with decorations barred two or three times over, was now cooped up in his solicitor's office in Lothbury, E.C., breaking his heart over the pettifoggery of conveyances. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
The positive, practical mind of the judge has taken in at a glance and penetrated to the bottom of arguments, means and valid pretensions; he submits impatiently to metaphysics and pettifoggery, to the argumentative force and mendacity of words. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Regime, Volume 1] Reference
I think it's Robbins 'finest performance since Shallow Hal, and I'm happy the popular peak performance coach is cutting through the governmedia's pettifoggery about stock market strength, nascent recoveries, and how the economy will jump start if we can just get banks lending again. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
What a pity he should be tied down to paltry pettifoggery! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
Avocat du diable = devil's advocate avocasserie (f) = pettifoggery (in French "mauvaise chicane d'avocat"). From Wordnik.com. [avocat - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Lawyers, remember, must deal with clients anxious to escape their fair share of taxes, to soak McDonald’s for selling scalding-hot coffee, to avoid alimony and child support, to win an acquittal for crime, to gain an advantage by cleverly worded contract, and to delay justice by clogging the courts with pettifoggery. From Wordnik.com. [2008 June : Law is Cool] Reference
Vasconcellos regards this as pettifoggery. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, I'm Terrific!] Reference
This is pure pettifoggery and claptrap!. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
On the one hand, we here have legal pettifoggery. From Wordnik.com. [Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations] Reference
It could be an elaborate scheme, a ruse, subterfuge, bamboozlement, shiftiness, skullduggery, pettifoggery, connivery, mountebankery, thimblerigging… This is one fine thesaurus; I could go all day. From Wordnik.com. [Third Door on the Left/Patchwork Pitching Staff Blues] Reference
Therefore presently, from this very instant forth, do I purpose, till I see the event and closure thereof, most heedfully to attend and wait upon it, for fear of some underhand tricky surprisal, cavilling pettifoggery, or fallacious quirks in law, to his detriment, hurt, or disadvantage. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
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