$ dict pettifogging
2. To debate or quarrel over unimportant, trifling matters.
[PJC]
3. To use subterfuge, deception, or flattery for any purpose;
to practice chicanery.
[PJC]
>From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pettifogging \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, a.
Paltry; quibbling; mean.
[1913 Webster]
>From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pettifogging \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, n.
Pettifoggery.
[1913 Webster]
>From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pettifogging
adj : 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" [syn: {caviling}, {carping},
{nitpicking}, {quibbling}]
>From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pettifog
v : argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
[syn: {quibble}, {niggle}, {bicker}, {squabble}, {brabble}]
[also: {pettifogging}, {pettifogged}]
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You people keep doing that all the time.
You waste my time. You waste your time. You make everyone unhappy.
Stop it!
-Girish
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