单词	pettifog
释义	pettifog /ˈpɛtɪfɒɡ / verb (pettifogs, pettifogging, pettifogged) [no object] archaic 1Quibble about petty points: without lifetime careers to preserve, congressmen would be free to debate rather than pettifog 1.1Practise legal deception or trickery: he will rather pettifog and turn common barrator than be out of employment... He probably thought the auditors were pettifogging about practices ‘everyone does’ and that different auditors wouldn't be so picky. They have obfuscated, delayed, lied, backtracked, pettifogged, and cancelled all sorts of commitments under the informal and formal rubrics of the Oslo process. Derivatives pettifoggery /ˈpɛtɪˌfɒɡəri / noun ... The theological pettifoggery of their literalistic religion has to be read to be believed. Seeing through Julia's pettifoggery, the judge overruled her frivolous objection. 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. Origin Early 17th century: back-formation from pettifogger.
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