pettifogger

• “He had long been reading law in his curious, spasmodically concentrated way, and he had practised a little as a "pettifogger," that is, an unlicensed practitioner in the inferior courts.”

  Abraham Lincoln

• “Before this I had ventured to try a few law cases before justices of the peace, both in the country, in villages, and in the city, and I had some professional triumphs, occasionally over a regular attorney, but more commonly meeting the "pettifogger," who was of”

  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865

• “The unintended consequence is empowerment of the moneyed few that can still afford the overpriced beltway pettifogger who knows the ropes.”

  The Huffington Post: Stuart Whatley: This Side of Democracy

• “The chief pettifogger and Energizer Bunny for the pro-Clinton forces was political strategist James Carville, whose official title was Senior Political Adviser to the President.”

  Fictionaut: Blood Sugar

• “Although now I have to thank you Andy Pandy because I'm now aware that I'm a pettifogger sense 2.”

  Ambiguity: Mixed Messages and Style Overlap

• “Giving new meaning to the terms “Philadelphia Lawyer”, “pettifogger”, “law monger”.”

  Watch Biden make a gaffe about a gaffe right in front of Obama...

• “Wondering: why people watch entertainment tv. .still .... that, and why words like pettifogger aren't used in the everyday anymore.”

  stem-d Diary Entry

• ““Pray, who mentioned money, Mr. Meiklewham?” said her ladyship. — “That wretched old pettifogger,” she added in”

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “To do otherwise faces America with the stark choice of going to War with Russia because some pettifogger who is Head of State in one of those Countries has a bone to pick, and picks it because NATO is with us, or withdrawing from the NATO Treaty rather than go to War.”

  Ilan Goldenberg: The Powell Endorsement and the End of the Republican Foreign Policy Establishment

• “If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger rendering each other mutually hideous and complementing each other; the pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the pettifogger horrible.”

  Les Miserables

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