pettifoggery
noun/ˈpɛti.fɒɡ.ə.ɹi/UK
Etymology
From pettifogger + -ery.
Definitions
The actions of a pettifogger
The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
- He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.
- Yet even Harlan was to prove capable of grievous pettifoggery on the racial issue.
- [Frankfurter's reasoning in Beauharnais v. Illinois] struck Black and the other three Roosevelt appointees who joined his dissent as noxious pettifoggery[.]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pettifoggery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA