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pettifoggery |
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pettifoggery noun artfulness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, cozenage, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dodgery, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fraudulent practice, guile, humbug, indirection, intrigue, jobbery, jugglery, juggling, knavery, petty dishonesty, sharp practice, treachery, trickiness, underhand dealing, underhand practice See also: artifice, bad faith, bribery, false pretense, knavery How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| will have to convince Sharon that this is a very serious crisis and that Bush won't put up with any more pettifoggery. These stereotypes have led to a lack of communication and interaction, even to the belief that the two groups have different psychological profiles--one introspective and incapable of dealing with people, the other extroverted and too large-minded to be bothered with the pettifoggery of cataloging. But having experienced firsthand the High Priests' obsession with enforcing irrelevant regulations and their zeal for bureaucratic pettifoggery, I've reached an opposite conclusion. |
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