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pettifoggery
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pettifoggery
Pettifoggery \Pet"ti*fog`ger*y\, n.; pl. pettifoggeries. The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles.
Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries.
--Barrow.
Wiktionary
pettifoggery
n. The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
WordNet
Usage examples of "pettifoggery".
Lawsuits and pettifoggery may support a good many families, but a greater proportion is ruined by them, and those who perish in the hands, of physicians are more numerous by far than those who get cured strong evidence in my opinion, that mankind would be much less miserable without either lawyers or doctors.