单词	pettifogging
释义	pettifogging /ˈpɛtɪfɒɡɪŋ / adjective Placing undue emphasis on petty details; petty or trivial: pettifogging attorneys were the bane of civil society... Their concern was brushed off as a pettifogging detail rather than an understandable concern. The one thing that Labour has been entirely consistent about is its pettifogging parliamentarism, its proceduralism, its gradualism and its timidity before capital and the Establishment. Only the most Lilliputian of political outlooks could consider these kind of pettifogging government measures ‘bold and far-reaching’. Origin Late 16th century: from pettifogger + -ing2.
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