pettifogger

How To Use pettifogger In A Sentence

• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Then there are Rice's own inconsistencies in her public statements, the transcripts of which are a gold mine of contradiction and pettifoggery. April 2004
• In such an argument there would always be matter for answers, rejoinders, replications, triplications, quadruplications, and that infinite web of disputes that our pettifoggers have spun out as far as they could in favor of lawsuits.
• “Pray, who mentioned money, Mr. Meiklewham?” said her ladyship. — “That wretched old pettifogger,” she added in Saint Ronan's Well
• Although now I have to thank you Andy Pandy because I'm now aware that I'm a pettifogger sense 2. Ambiguity: Mixed Messages and Style Overlap
• Wondering: why people watch entertainment tv. .still .... that, and why words like pettifogger aren't used in the everyday anymore. Stem-d Diary Entry
• Pettifoggery has come to mean legal chicanery, and last week a Senate subcommittee consultant used the word to describe a weakness of U.S. negotiators in dealing with Communist powers.