pettifogger 的定义
- a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- any person who quibbles or fusses over details
pettifogger 近义词
等同于 shyster
等同于 ambulance chaser
pettifogger 的近义词 5 个
等同于 caviler
pettifogger 的近义词 9 个
等同于 impostor
pettifogger 的近义词 9 个
更多pettifogger例句
- Now, which was the best pedigree, that of the son of the pastry-cook, or that of the son of the pettifogger?
- Thinking it well beneath me to measure words with this knavish pettifogger, I looked beyond him and spoke to his master.
- A happy thought suggested itself—one worthy of the unscrupulous theological pettifogger that he is.
- Pettifogger, pet′i-fog-ėr, n. a lawyer who practises only in paltry cases.
- Anything can be proved by two false witnesses—thinks the pettifogger.