Pettifogging

Definition: Pettifogging

Pettifogging

Adjective

1. Quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pettifogging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1773. (references)

Synonyms: Pettifogging

Discord

Quarrelsome, unpacific; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.

Improbity

Contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one.

Reasoning,

Foolish; (imbecile); frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling; finespun, overrefined.

Crosswords: Pettifogging

Meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Grandfather Gillenormand might think, he was not pleading, he was not even pettifogging.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued), i vockël (fine, minuscule, minute, picayune, piddling, pinpoint, potty, puny, slight, teeny, tiny, trifling, wee, wispy), i papërfillshëm (hole-in-the-wall, inconsiderable, naught, negligible, niggling, petty, potty, trifling). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشتغل بالتوافه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

който бави, който протака, незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), нищожен (exiguous, footling, insignificant, miserable, naught, negligible, nominal, nugatory, outside, paltry, peddling, pygmy, shabby, trifling, trivial), маловажен (footling, futile, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, last, light, minor, nugatory, peddling, petty, puerile, side, small time, trifling, two-by-four, unimportant), педантичен (academic, academical, bookish, donnish, finical, literal, mandarin, niminy-piminy, pedantic, precise, priggish, punctilious, punctual, scholastic, starchy, stuffy), дребнав (finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, little, mean, mouldy, niggling, niminy-piminy, pernickety, petty, small, small minded, trivial). (various references)

Czech

malicherný (fussy, narrow minded, niggling, parish pump, peddling, piddling, punctilious, sleeveless, small, small minded). (various references)

French

plutôt louche, plutôt douteux, insignifiant (petty), chicanier. (various references)

German

rechtsverdrehend. (various references)

Greek 

σχολαστικόσ (bookish, donnish, fastidious, finicky, pedagogue, pedant, pedantic, punctilious, scholastic). (various references)

Hungarian

zug-. (various references)

Italian

cavilloso (faultfinding). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

三百代言 (pettifogging lawyer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さんびゃくだいげん (pettifogging lawyer). (various references)

Manx

mynleighder (pettifogging lawyer). (various references)

Pig Latin

ettifoggingpay

Portuguese

vigarista (adventurer, bilk, biter, black list, cheat, pettish, sharp, sharper, slicker, swindler, trickster), trapaceiro (bribetaker, censorious, cheat, corndodger, crook, dodger, duffle, grafter, gyp, hog, pettifogger, rogue, rook, shammer, shark, sharp, sharper, shuffler, slicker, swindler, trickster, tricky), chicaneiro (censorious, pettifogger). (various references)

Romanian

chiţibuşar (cavilling, milliner), şicanator (cavilling, fault finding, teasing). (various references)

Russian 

мелкий (dusty, fine, minute, paltry, peanut politician, petty, piddling, potty, shallow, shoal, small minded, small time, small-time, two-by-four). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smicaličarski. (various references)

Spanish

pleitista (barrator, litiguous, quarrelsome, troublemaker), quisquilloso (cantankerous, fussy, pernickety, persnickety, petty, spiky, squeamish, touchy). (various references)

Swedish

trivial (commonplace, course, fiddling, pedestrian, petty, trite, trivial, vulgar), småaktig (captious, mean, quibbling), lagvrängning (chicanery), lagvrängande, krångel (hassle, trouble), avokatyr, advokatorisk (quibbling). (various references)

Turkish

safsatacı (casuist, pettifogger, quibbler, sophist), kılı kırk yaran (captious, choosy, finical, finicking, finicky, hairsplitting, meticulous, prissy, quibbling, wiredrawn), düzenbaz (bilker, crafty, cross, deceitful, deceiver, designing, falsifier, gadgety, impostor, intriguer, intriguing, left handed, racketeer, rogue, roguish, serpentine, shammer, shyster, tartar, trickster, tricky). (various references)

Ukranian 

сутяжницький (litigious), сутяжництво (barratry, chicane, chicanery, pettifoggery), шахрайський (fraudulent, picaresque, puckish, rascally, snide), шахрайство (bamboozle, bilk, cheat, deception, dishonesty, dodge, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, imposture, racket, racketeering, rascality, roguery, shave, skulduggery), дріб'язковий (cheeseparing, fribble, mean-spirited, near, niggling, nugacious, nugatory, penny-wise, piddling, toy, trifling). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụn vặt (immaterial, inconsequential, nugatory, petty), cãi những vụ lặt vặt hay cãi cọ lặt vặt lặt vặt. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pettifogging": pettifoggings. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: tiptoeing.

-4 letters: petition, pettifog.

-5 letters: epigoni, fetting, figging, fitting, fogging, getting, gifting, pegging, petting, pigging, pitting, potting, togging, toiting.

+1 letter: pettifoggings.

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