“My opponent was what was known in the States as a pettifogger.”

“He is a pettifogger, and surely must know that there is such a thing as feloniously breaking into a man's house.”

“Now which was the best pedigree, that of the son of the pastry-cook, or that of the son of the pettifogger?”

“The theological pettifoggery of their literalistic religion has to be read to be believed.”

“The result is players are apt to fall victims to hornswoggling and pettifoggery on a huge scale.”

“Seeing through Julia's pettifoggery, the judge overruled her frivolous objection.”

“Ames's tavern sign, then, plays on the tension between lawyers with formal legal training like Dudley, and village tavern keepers and pettifoggers like Ames himself.”

“The surgeons are atomies and pettifoggers, who kill more than they cure.”

“But, what of the hundreds of thousands of minds that have been deformed for ever by the incapable pettifoggers who have pretended to form them!”