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pettifoggeries

pettifoggeries is the plural of pettifoggery.

Meaning of pettifoggery

Noun

pettifoggery (plural pettifoggeries)

  1. The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
    • He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.
    Synonyms:
    fuss, quibble, spat, squabble, tiff

Questions about pettifoggeries

What is pettifoggeries the plural of?
Pettifoggeries is the plural of pettifoggery.

Words near pettifoggeries in the dictionary

  1. pettiest
  2. Pettifer
  3. pettifog
  4. pettifogged
  5. pettifogger
  6. pettifoggeries
  7. pettifoggers
  8. pettifoggery
  9. pettifogging
  10. pettifoggings
  11. pettifoging

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