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Meaning of PETTIFOGGING

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 Definition: [adj]  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"
 
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 Synonyms: carping, caviling, critical, nitpicking, quibbling
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, a.
Paltry; quibbling; mean.

  2. \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, n.
Pettifoggery.
 
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