pettifogging 的定义
- insignificant; petty: pettifogging details.
- dishonest or unethical in insignificant matters; meanly petty.
pettifogging 近义词
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pettifogging 的近义词 37 个
- altercate
- argufy
- avoid
- bicker
- carp
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- hassle
- niggle
- nitpick
- pretend
- prevaricate
- shift
- spar
- squabble
- waffle
- wrangle
- argue over
- blow hot and cold
- catch at straws
- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
- make a big thing about
- nit-pick
- paralogize
- pick to pieces
- put up an argument
- set to
- split hairs
- talk back
pettifogging 的反义词 6 个
更多pettifogging例句
- He is only a pettifogging country Squire, whose views on the Land Question are ob-solete in tot-to.
- Dare not say it is, or I will, upon the spot, divorce your pettifogging soul from your carrion carcass!
- By conforming to the Laws of this Universe; instead of trying by pettifogging to evade and profitably contradict them.
- I think you're nothing but a pettifogging lawyer—that there ain't no partner, and I'm no better'n a fool to talk to you.
- The pettifogging objections to some social plan had very little chance of survival owing to the dynamic power of the reformers.