| The theological pettifoggery of their literalistic religion has to be read to be believed. |
| Seeing through Julia's pettifoggery, the judge overruled her frivolous objection. |
| What then is pettifoggery but a way of utilizing something established without doing away with it? |
| 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. |
| The corruption of academic life is pettifoggery, captiousness, and preening vanity which differs from but is just as harmful as its governmental counterpart. |
| It was with pettifoggery and intrigues that Greek liberty ended. |
