[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pettifoggery \pet"tifog`gery\, n.; pl. pettifoggeries.
   the practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks;
   quibbles; chicanery.
   1913 webster

         quirks of law, and pettifoggeries.       --barrow.
   1913 webster
see also:
pettifoggeries 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pettifoggery
     n : a quarrel about petty points syn: bicker, bickering, spat,
          tiff, squabble, fuss
see also:
bicker bickering spat tiff squabble fuss 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

41 moby thesaurus words for "pettifoggery":
   artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane,
   chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin,
   dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play,
   hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, machination, nit-picking,
   paltering, parrying, pettifogging, prevarication, pussyfooting,
   quibbling, sharp practice, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping,
   skulduggery, sleight, subterfuge, supercherie, tergiversation,
   trichoschistism, trickery, underhand dealing

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