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PETTIFOGGING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pettifogging mean?
• PETTIFOGGING (adjective)
The adjective PETTIFOGGING has 1 sense:
1. quibbling over insignificant details
Familiarity information: PETTIFOGGING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Quibbling over insignificant details
Synonyms:
carping; caviling; nitpicking; pettifogging; quibbling
Context examples:
caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders / her nagging and carping attack / thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking / a pettifogging lawyer's mind / had no patience with quibbling critics
Similar:
critical (marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws)
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