| Seeing through Julia's pettifoggery, the judge overruled her frivolous objection. |
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| The theological pettifoggery of their literalistic religion has to be read to be believed. |
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| The result is players are apt to fall victims to hornswoggling and pettifoggery on a huge scale. |
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| The wounds from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 are too raw, and the importance of this inquiry too great, to settle for ethical pettifoggery. |
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| He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery. |
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| The argument of concentrating entirely on economics as a last, desperate springboard for the development of Third World countries, which are unable to afford the luxury of environmental safeguards, is mere pettifoggery. |
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| All that pettifoggery was rendered moot on the evening of November 7, when the president kinda-sorta apologized for misleading the country. |
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| Then the cascade of bureaucratic log-rolling and pettifoggery begins, as each new agency is called to the trough. |
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| And they had good cause to wonder, for Albert and George had summoned lawyers from all across the nation to come to the land of oranges and bathing costumes, to wage their war of pettifoggery in the courts. |
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