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单词 pettifogging
释义

pettifogging

/ˈpɛtɪfɒɡɪŋ /
adjective
Placing undue emphasis on petty details; petty or trivial: pettifogging attorneys were the bane of civil society...
  • Their concern was brushed off as a pettifogging detail rather than an understandable concern.
  • The one thing that Labour has been entirely consistent about is its pettifogging parliamentarism, its proceduralism, its gradualism and its timidity before capital and the Establishment.
  • Only the most Lilliputian of political outlooks could consider these kind of pettifogging government measures ‘bold and far-reaching’.

Origin

Late 16th century: from pettifogger + -ing2.

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