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Definition of pettifogging in English Turkish dictionary
- kılı kırk yaran
- hileci
- madrabaz
- düzenbaz
- {s} safsatacı
- hileci/önemsiz/titiz
- pettifog
- teferruata boğul
- pettifog
- teferruata bogul
- pettifog
- hile yap
- pettifog
- hukuki işlerde hile yapmak
- pettifog
- teferruata boğulmak
- pettifog
- ufak tefek hukuki işlere bakmak
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Definition of pettifogging in English English dictionary
- {a} low, mean, little, unbecoming
- disapproval You can describe an action or situation as pettifogging when you think that unnecessary attention is being paid to unimportant, boring details. pettifogging bureaucratic interference. too concerned with small details
- 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"
- Paltry; quibbling; mean
- Pettifoggery
- present participle of pettifog
- {s} petty, trivial; cheating, swindling
- pettifog
- To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick
Don't pettifog or we will soon grow weary.
- pettifog
- To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim
- pettifog
- To quibble of trivial matters; nitpick
- pettifog
- {f} cheat, deceive; swindle, defraud
- pettifog
- argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
- pettifog
- To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way
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pettifogging
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pet·ti·fog·gingPronunciation
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