Pettifog
['pɛtɪfɔɡ]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.
(v. t.) To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Rascally, pettifogging robbers! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- You are,' continued Mr. Pickwick, resuming the thread of his discourse- -'you are a well-matched pair of mean, rascally, pettifogging robbers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It is all summed up in that,' rejoined Mr. Pickwick; 'they are mean, rascally, pettifogging robbers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The pettifogging objections to some social plan had very little chance of survival owing to the dynamic power of the reformers. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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