- pettifoggery as a noun:
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pettifoggery
noun
1 pettifoggery
A quarrel about petty points.
synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff.
Dutch: gekibbel, gekrakeel
Moby thesaurus: artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play, hairsplitting, hedging ... show more.
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