Word Meanings - PETTIFOGULIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks. De Quincey.

Related words: (words related to PETTIFOGULIZE)

• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• TRICKSTER
  One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
• TRICKSY
  Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.
• CONTEMPTIBLE
  1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
• PETTIFOGGERY
  The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles. Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. Barrow.
• PETTIFOGGER
  A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer. A pettifogger was lord chancellor. Macaulay.
• TRICKSINESS
  The quality or state of being tricksy; trickiness. G. Eliot.