| Seeing through Julia's pettifoggery, the judge overruled her frivolous objection. |
| Then the cascade of bureaucratic log-rolling and pettifoggery begins, as each new agency is called to the trough. |
| What then is pettifoggery but a way of utilizing something established without doing away with it? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
