Pettifogger

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A petty, quibbling, unscrupulous lawyer.
  • n. One who quibbles over trivia.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections.
  • n. An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An inferior attorney or lawyer who is employed in small or mean business.
  • n. The rockling.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections
  • n. a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
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