(1) without lifetime careers to preserve, congressmen would be free to debate rather than pettifog(2) he will rather pettifog and turn common barrator than be out of employment(3) He probably thought the auditors were pettifogging about practices u2018everyone doesu2019 and that different auditors wouldn't be so picky.(4) They have obfuscated, delayed, lied, backtracked, pettifogged , and cancelled all sorts of commitments under the informal and formal rubrics of the Oslo process.(5) Pettifoggery has come to mean legal chicanery, and last week a Senate subcommittee consultant used the word to describe a weakness of U.S. negotiators in dealing with Communist powers.(6) The theological pettifoggery of their literalistic religion has to be read to be believed.(7) Seeing through Julia's pettifoggery , the judge overruled her frivolous objection.
