Pettifogging

I have changed my name to Wise Eminent Sagacious Gratitudinuous Pettifogging Conservative IX. note the pedigree!

Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Don’t Cry for Me, New Republic 2006

They signed off before while the headmaster of Maganos was still spluttering a reply, with Asha muttering, "Pettifogging bureaucrat."

First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005

Pettifogging lawyers and dishonest scholars will always be able to carp selectively and ignorantly about the warts upon our body politic.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Republican Senatorial Candidate Alan Keyes 2004

Pettifogging lawyers were sent, one by each company, to the village council in each particular territory involved, but no one of the companies had as yet the slightest idea who was back of it all or of the general plan of operations.

The Titan 2004

Pettifogging, and of the strange way of living among the

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

How Pantagruel passed by the land of Pettifogging, and of the strange way of living among the Catchpoles.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

How Pantagruel passed by the land of Pettifogging, and of the strange way of living among the Catchpoles.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

How Pantagruel passed by the land of Pettifogging, and of the strange way of living among the Catchpoles.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Pettifogging, and of the strange way of living among the

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Pettifogging lawyers were sent, one by each company, to the village council in each particular territory involved, but no one of the companies had as yet the slightest idea who was back of it all or of the general plan of operations.

The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908