"Pettifogged" is a word in ENGLISH
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To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.
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To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
Read the complete definitionTo do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.
Read the complete definitionTo advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim.
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Read the complete definitionPaltry; quibbling; mean.
Read the complete definitionPettifoggery.
Read the complete definitionA “pettifogging shyster" is an unscrupulous practitioner who disgraces his profession by doing mean work, and re-sorts to sharp practice …
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