How To Use pettifog In A Sentence
- He pettifogs with his witnesses to establish his theory. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
- This proves, according to Ezra, that conservative and Republican opposition to the current iteration of the individual mandate is just legal pettifoggery and political opportunism. Give me liberty or give me health care
- The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing is a product of the pointy-headed wowsers at the Association of American University Presses who established a Task Force on Bias-Free Language filled with cranks, pokenoses, blowhards, four-flushers, and pettifogs. P.J. O’Wowser
- self-evident," since become awkward of acceptance, were ever thus pettifogged out of the path, and fundamental principles have in this way prescriptively been tampered with. "Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers"
- Ames's tavern sign, then, plays on the tension between lawyers with formal legal training like Dudley, and village tavern keepers and pettifoggers like Ames himself.
- Either they have no idea what is at stake, or they place pettifogging bureaucracy above all else.
- He should have consented to know but the grand personal adventure on the grand personal basis: nothing short of this, no poor cognisance of confusable, pettifogging things, the sphere of earth-grubbing questions and two-penny issues, would begin to be, on any side, Olympian enough. The Finer Grain
- Seeing through Julia's pettifoggery, the judge overruled her frivolous objection.
- To do otherwise faces America with the stark choice of going to War with Russia because some pettifogger who is Head of State in one of those Countries has a bone to pick, and picks it because NATO is with us, or withdrawing from the NATO Treaty rather than go to War. Ilan Goldenberg: The Powell Endorsement and the End of the Republican Foreign Policy Establishment
- It is at best but a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
