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Noun pettifoggery has 1 sense

• pettifoggery(n = noun.communication) bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff - a quarrel about petty points; Array
is a kind of dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words, wrangle
Derived form verb pettifog₁

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THESAURUS

pettifoggery

artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, machination, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifogging, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, sharp practice, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, skulduggery, sleight, subterfuge, supercherie, tergiversation, trichoschistism, trickery, underhand dealing

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