Usually means: Quibbling over trivial matters excessively.
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  1. pettifogging: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pettifogging: Merriam-Webster
  3. pettifogging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pettifogging: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pettifogging: Vocabulary.com
  6. pettifogging: Wordnik
  7. pettifogging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pettifogging: Wiktionary
  9. pettifogging: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pettifogging, pettifogging: Dictionary.com
  11. Pettifogging: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Pettifogging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pettifogging: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. pettifogging: Rhymezone
  15. Pettifogging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pettifogging: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pettifogging: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Pettifogging: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pettifogging: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pettifogging: Urban Dictionary

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