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pettifogger n. 讼棍,骗人的律师 讼棍,骗人的律师 pettifogger n 1: a person ( especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods [ synonym: { shyster}, { pettifogger}] 2: a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections [ synonym: { quibbler}, { caviller}, { caviler}, { pettifogger}] Pettifogger \ Pet" ti* fog` ger\, n. A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer. [ 1913 Webster] A pettifogger was lord chancellor. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 56 Moby Thesaurus words for " pettifogger": Philadelphia lawyer, ambulance chaser, belittler, bunco artist, bunco steerer, captious critic, cardsharp, cardsharper, carper, carpetbagger, caviler, censor, censurer, common scold, con artist, con man, confidence man, crimp, critic, criticizer, equivocator, faultfinder, frondeur, hairsplitter, hedger, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land- grabber, momus, mortgage shark, mystificator, mystifier, nitpicker, obscurantist, palterer, picayune critic, pitchman, prevaricator, pussyfoot, pussyfooter, quibbler, scold, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shuffler, shyster, slicker, smellfungus, spieler, tergiversator
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