Crossword-Solution: PETTIFOG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pettifog | v. i. | To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. |
| Pettifog | v. t. | To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “PETTIFOG”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Argue trickily. | 1 answer |
| Be persnickety | 1 answer |
| Bicker or cavil. | 1 answer |
| Bicker over trifles | 1 answer |
| Do law business in a tricky way. | 1 answer |
| Practise legal deception | 1 answer |
| Quibble over trifles | 1 answer |
| What shysters do | 1 answer |
| Argue over trifles | 2 answers |
| ARGUE OVER PETTY THINGS | 11 answers |
| ARGUE for | 14 answers |
| Bicker | 36 answers |
| Quibble | 50 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PETTIFOG (5)
The female students are now sitting with their hands before them, juggled out of their studies, in plain defiance of justice and public faith, waiting till time shall show them whether provincial lawyers can pettifog as well as trades-union doctors.
Pettifog commenced reading the names--James Sharp versus John Slug--call John Slug: John Slug being duly called and not answering, was defaulted.
Pettifog commenced reading the names: "James Sharp versus John Slug--call John Slug." John Slug being duly called and not answering, was defaulted.
But if it was and is the purpose of those for whom you pettifog to keep woman off the platform of that convention and deny her any part in its proceedings except as a spectator, what does all your talk about Higginson's untimeliness and the committee's amount to? Why not treat the subject with some show of honesty? The women and their friends held a grand rally in the Broadway Tabernacle the second day afterwards.
Pettifogging.] Etym: [Petty + fog to pettifog.] Defn: To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1949–2022).