Pettifogged

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  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of pettifog.
    • Word Usage
    "It is true that he made amends by adding, when his lecture was published, a counter statement; but that such a man should have seriously cited such a work shows the widespread mischief done among people not versed in engineering lore by the admirably written romance of Smiles, who as Edward C. Knight, in his Mechanical Dictionary, truly declares, has "pettifogged the whole case.""
    Verb Form
    pettifogged    pettifogging    pettifogs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fence    contend    argue    debate   
    Variant
    pettifogging    pettifogged   
    Form
    pettifogged    pettifogging   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    prevaricate   
     
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