pettifoggery

n. 讼棍手段, 欺瞒, 吹毛求疵, 诡辩 [法] 讼棍技俩, 奸诈手段, 欺瞒

发音

UK /ˈpɛti.fɒɡ.ə.ɹi/

词形变化

pettifoggeries 复数 pettifoggeries

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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[.]

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

fuss spat bickering tiff squabble bicker

上位词 6

words row quarrel run-in wrangle dustup

词源

From pettifogger + -ery.

来源：wiktionary