Sentences with word «pettifogging»

Solicitors were the pettifogging other ranks who did the boring legwork.
Yes, he love to post his tedious «climate ball» (as he termed it) dissections on mainly spurious points, mostly struggling to impress readers with his pettifogging cleverness.
I'm going to post up a few different versions in order to forestall pettifogging about provenance as much as possible.
It's worth taking a moment to reflect, once more, on the magnificence of the acting in these scenes, especially from the self - important, pettifogging senator.
«Here is a stickler from an earlier age... here is pettifogging fogey made flesh.»
With all the important issues at stake in the presidential and vice presidential debates, it takes a small and pettifogging disposition to be concerned with a matter of fairness.
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