'Pettifoggery' definitions:
Definition of 'pettifoggery'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Pettifoggery'
From: GCIDE
- Pettifoggery \Pet"ti*fog`ger*y\, n.; pl. pettifoggeries. The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles; chicanery. [1913 Webster]
- Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pettifoggery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- artifice,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- collusion,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- covin,
- dodgery,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- fencing,
- foul play,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- logic-chopping,
- machination,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pettifogging,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- sharp practice,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- trickery,
- underhand dealing