Definition of Pettifogged

1. Verb. (past of pettifog) ¹

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Definition of Pettifogged

1. pettifog [v] - See also: pettifog

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pettifogged

petter
petterdite
petters
petti
pettichaps
petticoat
petticoated
petticoating
petticoatless
petticoats
pettier
petties
pettiest
pettifog
pettifoged
pettifogged (current term)
pettifogger
pettifoggeries
pettifoggers
pettifoggery
pettifogging
pettifoggings
pettifoging
pettifogs
pettifogulize
pettily
pettiness
pettinesses
petting zoo

Literary usage of Pettifogged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Secularia: Or, Surveys on the Mainstream of History by Samuel Lucas (1862)
"We should even say that they "pettifogged" when issues were gravest and when most was ... that they pettifogged more persistently than any other Royal line. ..."

2. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"... stamped with every word, invested with every form, hung with every attribute, to define it a deposit—not even a loan— was to be pettifogged into a gift ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The case has even been pettifogged in our own time by the assertion that the banishment was only the action of a commercial company excluding an uncongenial ..."

4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The case has even been pettifogged in our own time by the assertion that the banishment was only the action of a commercial company excluding an uncongenial ..."

5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The case has even been pettifogged in our own time by the assertion that the banishment was only the action of a commercial company excluding an uncongenial ..."

6. Reminiscences of Rufus Choate: The Great American Advocate by Edward Griffin Parker (1860)
"... with gratuitous sharpness and disposition to worry ; and ho never pettifogged ; hut he took every just and proper advantage ; he never yielded an ..."

7. Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman by Willis Fletcher Johnson, Oliver Otis Howard (1891)
"He had been pettifogged out of the case by a sharp petty attorney opposed to him in a way which was disgusting to his intellect and his convictions. ..."

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