pettifoggery
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Danh từ
nounPlural noun:
pettifoggeries
- 1.
The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.
Yet even Harlan was to prove capable of grievous pettifoggery on the racial issue.
[Frankfurter's reasoning in Beauharnais v. Illinois] struck Black and the other three Roosevelt appointees who joined his dissent as noxious pettifoggery[.]
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