| 单词 | pettifoggery |
| 例句 | Not without cause, though: She also uses words like “pettifoggery” in her articles. Review: ‘Zoo’ Is a James Patterson Novel Brought to TV 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Sixty-seven years ago, the Supreme Court unanimously cut through decades’ worth of segregationist pettifoggery with a simple declaratory sentence: “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” Opinion | Can college sports survive contact with the truth? 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Surely, therefore, his lawyers will not engage in frivolous arguments, obfuscation, pettifoggery or dilatory tactics that would complicate uncovering the truth, right? Opinion | John Bolton: Time is running out for Trump — and Republicans who coddle him 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z All of that to my mind is serving his interests, when we get trapped in these kinds of debates about pettifoggery or meta-pettifoggery. Masha Gessen on Trump's "autocratic attempt" — his attack on reality, meaning and democracy 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Mitchell characterized the Guantanamo war court hearings as “pettifoggery, an over-emphasis on petty details.” Combative and defiant, CIA psychologist reignites torture debate at 9/11 trial 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The world’s greatest deliberative body falls to pettifoggery. Opinion | Republicans aren’t serving the country, or even the president. Just themselves. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Now, the world’s greatest deliberative body has devolved into a palace of pettifoggery. Opinion | ‘S.O.S.! PLEASE HELP ME!’ The world’s greatest deliberative body falls to pettifoggery. 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z He was a Silva—for the "de" was acquired from the king after much pettifoggery on the part of that monarch with the prognathic jaw—and he was of Portuguese blood. Promenades of an Impressionist Do you take for philosophy this twaddle, this intolerable pettifoggery adorned with a few scholastic trimmings? What is Property? Both are friends of the oppressed and haters of pedantry and pettifoggery. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Amid his atmosphere of pettifoggery, this rudimentary scholar, waging battle on life's acerbities, certainly paid no attention to the insect; at most, if he met it, he would crush it under foot. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography |
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