Pettifogging

"Pettifogging" in a Sentence (2 examples)

[…] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]

It's lots of other pettifogging, degrading things. Things you have to endure, things you never have to think about until they happen to you.

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