Pettifoggery

n.

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The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles. Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. - Barrow.

Noun

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pettifoggery - a quarrel about petty points Synonyms: bicker, bickering, spat, squabble, tiff, fuss

artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, machination, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifogging, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, sharp practice, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, skulduggery, sleight, subterfuge, supercherie, tergiversation, trichoschistism, trickery, underhand dealing