| Pronunciation: | | 'peti`fâgur
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| Matching Terms: | | pettifoggery
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- [n] a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections
- [n] a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
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| | Synonyms: | | caviler, caviller, quibbler, shyster |
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| | See Also: | | controversialist, disputant, offender, wrongdoer |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pet"ti*fog`ger\, n.
A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods
are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
A pettifogger was lord chancellor. --Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | ambulance chaser, belittler, bunco artist, bunco steerer, captious critic, cardsharp, cardsharper, carper, carpetbagger, caviler, censor, censurer, common scold, con artist, con man, confidence man, crimp, critic, criticizer, equivocator, faultfinder, frondeur, hairsplitter, hedger, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, momus, mortgage shark, mystificator, mystifier, nitpicker, obscurantist, palterer, Philadelphia lawyer, picayune critic, pitchman, prevaricator, pussyfoot, pussyfooter, quibbler, scold, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shuffler, shyster, slicker, smellfungus, spieler, tergiversator |
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