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pettifoggery
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pettifoggery
n.
cheating, deception; swindling
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Pettifog
Pettifog is an English back-formation of pettifogger, a quibbler of details. It is also a stock character in comedy, often a lawyer. It can refer to:
- Mr. Pettifog, a minor character in The Bloodhound Gang (TV series)
- Larsen E. Pettifogger, a character in The Wizard of Id modeled after Larsen E. Whipsnade in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
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pettifoggery
Noun
1. a quarrel about petty points
(synonym) bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, fuss
(hypernym) quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup
(derivation) quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble
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Pettifoggery
(n.)
The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles.
The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles.
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pettifoggery
Synonyms and related words:
artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, machination, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifogging, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, sharp practice, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, skulduggery, sleight, subterfuge, supercherie, tergiversation, trichoschistism, trickery, underhand dealing
artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, machination, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifogging, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, sharp practice, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, skulduggery, sleight, subterfuge, supercherie, tergiversation, trichoschistism, trickery, underhand dealing
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