pettifogging Definition

caviling, nitpicking, carping, quibbling, critical, irrelevancies, rebarbative, pedantry, sophistries, footling, pernickety, eliding, legalistic, legalism, tendentiousness, bureaucratic, flummery, buncombe, sophistic, tautologies, sanctimonious, prate, casuistry, dilatoriness, priggishness, officiousness, terminological, moralizing, prolixity, censorious, charlatanry, censorial, obfuscating, journalese, answerability, waffly, indirectness, officialdom, bafflegab, pedantic, pithiness, dictums, punctiliousness, hortatory, sententious, picayune, circumlocutions, superfluity, grubbiness, infelicities, meretricious, fatuity, hairsplitting, fustiness, archaisms, procrustean, wrongheadedness, truckling, gallimaufry, aggrandizing, presentism, disingenuity, hectoring, speciesist, prevaricates, brownism, panjandrum, busybodies, sanctimony, incoherency, foetid, hackwork, tricksy, bureaucracies, roguery, fatuous, stultification, cravenness, peccadillos, trammelled, imposer, duplicities, fettering, nefariousness, noisome, immoderation, grandiloquence, boondoggling, bureaucrats, pettily, simpleminded, pieties, bureacracy, pharisaical, fiats, patronising, wordiness, gradgrind, wishfulness, churlishness,