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Pettifogger

발음 /ˈpɛtɪˌfɒɡə/ · 품사 명사 (noun)

영어 정의

Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.

의미별 영어 정의

  1. Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.
  2. An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.

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Hence the cunning measure of appointing as ambassador some political pettifogger skilled in delays, sophisms, and misapprehensions, and dexterous in the art of baffling argument.
"An inn, or a tavern . . . these are places where greasy citizens take pipe and pot, where the knavish pettifoggers of the law spunge on their most unhappy victims.
. . .yet he has never sought by browbeating and other arts of the pettifogger, to confuse, baffle, and bewilder a witness. . . .

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Hence the cunning measure of appointing as ambassador some political pettifogger skilled in delays, sophisms, and misapprehensions, and dexterous in the art of baffling argument.

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