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pettifogging
(a.)訟棍的,騙人的,講歪理的訟棍,詭辯,欺騙
Pet·ti·fog v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pettifogged p. pr. & vb. n. Pettifogging ]
1. To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. “He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis.”
Pet·ti·fog·ging a. Paltry; quibbling; mean.
Pet·ti·fog·ging, n. Pettifoggery.
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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]
pettifog
v : argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
[syn: quibble, niggle, bicker, squabble, brabble]
[also: pettifogging, pettifogged]