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pettifogger
noun[ C ]
old-fashioneddisapprovinguk /ˈpet.ɪˌfɒɡ.ər/ us /ˈpet̬ɪˌfɑː.ɡɚ/
someone who gives too much attention to small details that are not important :
Some critics were grudging about his production of Hamlet, but he shouldn't take any notice of such pettifoggers.
a lawyer who uses methods that may deceive people :
Many of these lawsuits may have been fabricated by pettifoggers.
What a pettifogger you are!
There were complaints about pettifoggers stirring up quarrels between neighbours.
Pettifoggers did a busy trade in document drafting and bribing low-level clerks.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Of little or less importance
be in/under someone's shadowidiom
be neither here nor thereidiom
big deal
biggie
derisory
marginal
meaningless
meaninglessly
meaninglessness
mere
picture
piddling
piddly
piffling
play second fiddleidiom
unserious
unseriousness
venial
vestigial
vestigially
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