pettifogger as a noun: - 1
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pettifogger
noun
1 pettifogger
A person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods.
synonym: shyster.
Roget 968:
lawyer,
attorney,
legal counsel;
counsel,
counsellor,
counsellor at law,
attorney at law;
jurist,
legist†,
civilian,
pundit,
publicist,
juris consult [Lat.],
legal adviser,
advocate;
barrister,
barrister at law;
King's or Queen's counsel;
K. C.;
Q. C.;
silk gown,
leader,
sergeant-at-law,
bencher;
tubman†,
judge
etc.
967.
bar,
legal profession,
bar association,
association of trial lawyers;
officer of the court;
gentleman of the long robe;
junior bar,
outer bar,
inner bar;
equity draftsman,
conveyancer,
pleader,
special pleader.
solicitor,
proctor;
notary,
notary public;
scrivener,
cursitor†;
writer,
writer to the signet;
S. S.C.;
limb of the law;
pettifogger;
vakil†.
legal beagle [Coll.].
[persons accessory to lawyers]
legal secretary;
legal assistant;
law student.
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2 pettifogger
Moby thesaurus: Philadelphia lawyer, ambulance chaser, belittler, bunco artist, bunco steerer, captious critic, cardsharp, cardsharper, carper, carpetbagger, caviler, censor, censurer, common scold, con artist, con man, confidence man, crimp, critic, criticizer, equivocator, faultfinder, frondeur, hairsplitter, hedger, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, momus, mortgage shark, mystificator, mystifier, nitpicker, obscurantist, palterer, picayune critic, pitchman, prevaricator, pussyfoot, pussyfooter, quibbler, scold, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shuffler, shyster, slicker, smellfungus, spieler, tergiversator ... show more.
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