pettifoggery
- n a quarrel about petty points
- Now the nation is considering a solution to government regimentation and pettifoggery.
- All the forms of evasion and obstructionfrom dilatory diatribes and procedural pettifoggery to the simple no and the plain walkoutwere Andrei Gromyko's special assignments.
- And why Americans don't regard the electoral college itself as an example of legal pettifoggery dirty cheating, if you will by a handful of men in wigs in Philadelphia in .