"caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke
"her nagging and carping attack"
"thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"
"a pettifogging lawyer's mind"
"had no patience with quibbling critics"
pettifogging 片语
片语
sophism诡辩
unnecessary不必要的;多余的,无用的
fraud(Fraud)人名;(法)弗罗
useless无用的;无效的
pettifogging 例句
英汉例句
freed from the pettifogging concerns of quibbling lawyers and self-serving politicians, goes the argument, he can concentrate on eradicating extremism.