Pettifog

(v. i.) To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.

(v. t.) To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim.

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• Rascally, pettifogging robbers! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• You are,' continued Mr. Pickwick, resuming the thread of his discourse- -'you are a well-matched pair of mean, rascally, pettifogging robbers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is all summed up in that,' rejoined Mr. Pickwick; 'they are mean, rascally, pettifogging robbers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The pettifogging objections to some social plan had very little chance of survival owing to the dynamic power of the reformers. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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