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pettifogging
 
Adjective pettifogging has 1 sense
  1. caviling, carping, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling - 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"
    Antonym: uncritical (indirect, via critical)
Verb pettifog has 1 sense
  1. quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble - argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
    --1 is one way to argue, contend, debate, fence
    Derived forms: noun pettifogger2, noun pettifoggery1
    Sample sentences:
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