pettifoggery
UK/ˈpɛti.fɒɡ.ə.ɹi/
pettifoggery noun: the actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
Noun
pettifoggery (plural pettifoggeries)
- The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
- He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.
- Yet even Harlan was to prove capable of grievous pettifoggery on the racial issue.2011, Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, Knopf Doubleday (2011), p. 82
pettifoggery meaning in Bengali and Punjabi
pettifoggery in Bengali
- একজন পেটিফগারের কাজ, তুচ্ছ ঝগড়া
pettifoggery in Punjabi
- pettifoggery
- ਝੱਖ jhakkha
Examples of pettifoggery in a sentence
- Illinois] struck Black and the other three Roosevelt appointees who joined his dissent as noxious pettifoggery[.]2011, Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, Knopf Doubleday...
- The idea that a minor bureaucratic restructuring could have made any difference in the time of Trump reflected how immune bureaucratic pettifoggery is to reality.2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 317:
Synonyms of pettifoggery
Forms of pettifoggery
| plural | pettifoggeries |
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Origin of pettifoggery
From pettifogger + -ery.
Questions about pettifoggery
- What does pettifoggery mean?
- Pettifoggery means the actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
- What is pettifoggery in Bengali?
- Pettifoggery in Bengali is একজন পেটিফগারের কাজ, তুচ্ছ ঝগড়া. See Pettifoggery meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use pettifoggery in a sentence?
- Illinois] struck Black and the other three Roosevelt appointees who joined his dissent as noxious pettifoggery[.]
- What part of speech is pettifoggery?
- Pettifoggery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pettifoggery?
- Pettifoggery is pronounced /ˈpɛti.fɒɡ.ə.ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pettifoggery?
- The plural of pettifoggery is pettifoggeries.
Words near pettifoggery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pettifoggery (page history and authors); pettifoggery (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਝੱਖ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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