pettifog

1 Roberts told senators he would emphasize a standard of decorum so strict that they can’t use the “pettifog” in Trump’s trial.

2 Throughout the euro crisis legal pettifogging has hampered rational policy.

3 In an earlier impeachment trial, he said, an accusation of “pettifogging,” or an undue emphasis on petty details, was said to have crossed a line.

4 It has been such a day of pettifogging—pitiful pettifogging.

5 Like most supporters of his country’s withdrawal from the bloc, he wants Britain to strike out on its own, a fully sovereign state unshackled from Europe’s pettifogging rules and the Continent’s overweening state.

6 The word is so seldom used that Google Ngrams, which measures the frequency that words appear in books and journals, shows that "pettifogging" peaked in 1900, but has gradually disappeared.

7 The good czar showed he despised the preposterous sycophancy of his pettifogging officials just like ordinary Russians did.

8 “In the 1905 Swayne trial, a senator objected when one of the managers used the word ‘pettifogging’ and the presiding officer said the word ought not to have been used,” Chief Justice Roberts said.

9 It also points out that Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. recently warned both sides in the impeachment battle to stop “pettifogging.”

10 Betrayed by globalist elites, pettifogging democrats and politically correct politicians, what attracts Westerners to authority is the image of strength and self-assertion.

11 To pettifog is ‘to engage in legal chicanery’ or ‘to quibble over insignificant details,’” the dictionary advised.

12 He is said to believe that his powers of persuasion can override the objections of pettifogging bureaucrats, including his own.

13 Coming from the pinnacle of law enforcement, Comey’s well-executed sleight of hand might even impart a veneer of respectability to what many have long called a cheap, pettifogging lawyer trick.

14 It is one that includes lower taxes, less pettifogging regulation and freer trade.

15 Once again the question must be posed: are these pettifogging and increasingly arbitrary interventions really the future the game wants to embrace?

16 But unless you're going to require journalists and bloggers to embrace such a pettifogging regime too, you're pottering down the blindest of alleys, regulating human nature until your wig falls off.

17 I don't know why everyone's so surprised about the word #pettifogging.

18 A pettifogging royal charter may not allow actual title splits until 2016, but it's jobs – not titles – that matter here.

19 As soon as Trump blurted his reckless fantasy of a Wall in 2015, I knew that he would wind up parsing and pettifogging in an effort to backtrack.

20 He assailed Mr. Gladstone's financial policy one night, and said it was like the practice of a pettifogging attorney.

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2 讼棍

shyster lawmonger

3 诡辩者

sophisticator

4 诡辩

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7 挑剔

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