pettifoggery

12 letters · noun · scores 3,800 in SpellHuntr

noun

a quarrel about petty points

Pettifoggery in a sentence

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.

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