Sentence examples for pettifoggery from inspiring English sources
noun
The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
- He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.
Part of the folklore of Soviet montage is that it was invented by the idealistic filmmakers of a newborn nation as a way of converting imported American movies from capitalist pettifoggery into proletarian uplift by rearranging sequences and redefining characters.
The result is players are apt to fall victims to hornswoggling and pettifoggery on a huge scale.
Take the Saudi pettifoggery that forbids the practice of faiths other than Islam.
The wounds from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 are too raw, and the importance of this inquiry too great, to settle for ethical pettifoggery.
And they had good cause to wonder, for Albert and George had summoned lawyers from all across the nation to come to the land of oranges and bathing costumes, to wage their war of pettifoggery in the courts.
