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Pettifogger

noun
1.
A person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods.  Synonym: shyster.
2.
A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.  Synonyms: caviler, caviller, quibbler.





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"Pettifogger" Quotes from Famous Books



... ever. If I could not be strong to prevail with my own friend and fellow-labourer,—with Crasweller, who was the first to come, and who should have entered the college with an heroic grandeur,—how could I even desire any other to immure himself? how persuade such men as Barnes, or Tallowax, or that pettifogger Exors, to be led quietly up through the streets of the city? ...
— The Fixed Period • Anthony Trollope


Words linked to "Pettifogger" :   malcontent, pettifog, quibbler, wrongdoer, caviller, offender


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