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Pronunciation:
[ pˈɛtɪfˌɒɡɪŋ], [ pˈɛtɪfˌɒɡɪŋ], [ p_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_f_ˌɒ_ɡ_ɪ_ŋ]
Related words: petty, pedantic, quarrelsome, nitpicking, punctilious, hypercritical
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Similar words for pettifogging:
- critical (adjective)
- fault-finding (adjective)
- inconsiderable (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- petty (adjective)
- piddling (adjective)
- carping (noun)
- caviling (noun)
- critical (noun)
- nitpicking (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- pettifogging (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Pettifogging:
adj.
• critical (adjective) • fault-finding (adjective)- hyper-critical,
- hyper critical,
- over-critical,
- more hairsplitting,
- more nit picking,
- nit picking,
- more pettifogging,
- hard please,
- most nit-picking,
- most pettifogging,
- fault finding,
- most hairsplitting,
- most nit picking,
- more nit-picking.
- two bit,
- piddling,
- penny-ante,
- derisory,
- nickel-and-dime,
- over critical,
- petty,
- overcritical,
- nit-picking,
- hard to please,
- faultfinding,
- scratcher,
- shoestring,
- penny ante.
- more penny ante,
- narrowminded,
- sub-ordinate,
- pennyante,
- more pennyante,
- nickel and dime,
- most nickel-and-dime,
- in essential,
- more nickel and dime,
- scratchest,
- most junior,
- sub ordinate,
- more shoestring,
- most penny ante,
- in consequent,
- most pennyante,
- in-consequent,
- twobit,
- un-important,
- smallminded,
- narrow minded,
- more peanut,
- more penny-ante,
- more nickel-and-dime,
- most penny-ante,
- most peanut,
- in-essential,
- most shoestring,
- small minded,
- most nickel and dime.
n.
• carping (noun) • caviling (noun) • critical (noun) • nitpicking (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)- minor,
- subordination,
- stay,
- symbolic,
- fringe,
- trivial,
- secondary,
- inessential,
- shadow,
- merely,
- matter,
- neither,
- rinky-dink,
- inconsiderable,
- little,
- small,
- mouldy,
- small-time,
- fiddling,
- incidental,
- picture,
- mere,
- end,
- need,
- subsidiary,
- meaningless,
- insignificant,
- account,
- vestigial,
- humble,
- sideshow,
- piffling,
- trifling,
- marginal,
- tinpot,
- inconsequential,
- miss,
- background,
- nothing,
- two-bit,
- subordinate,
- unimportant,
- inferior,
- venial,
- valueless,
- sub,
- lesser,
- lowly,
- junior,
- peripheral,
- poxy,
- big,
- forgettable,
- worth,
- second class,
- footling,
- triviality,
- low,
- insubstantial,
- picayune,
- play.
Other synonyms:
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- dishonest.
- fine,
- censorious,
- puritanical,
- sly,
- mean,
- nagging,
- pickiness,
- gladiatorial,
- dissenting,
- old fashioned,
- stricture,
- square,
- Cavilling,
- litigious,
- nice,
- close-minded,
- swipe,
- criticism,
- connivance,
- hypercritical,
- aspersion,
- artifice,
- chicanery,
- fencing,
- conspiracy,
- Squabbling,
- sleight,
- hidebound,
- unpacific,
- unscrupulous,
- one-sided,
- puny,
- contentious,
- foolish,
- arguing,
- conventional,
- paltry,
- biased,
- overrefined,
- niggling,
- quarrelsome,
- non-objective,
- bad press,
- intolerant,
- Debating,
- litigant,
- pindling,
- evasive,
- fundamentalist,
- slam,
- nit,
- scabby,
- subtle,
- skulduggery,
- parochial,
- literal,
- factious,
- contemptible,
- deceitful,
- foul play,
- pokey,
- bad notices,
- literal-minded,
- captious,
- bigoted,
- scrubby,
- dirty,
- groveling,
- niggle,
- fussy,
- prejudiced,
- reactionary,
- measly,
- censure,
- finespun,
- one-horse,
- narrow-minded,
- shabby,
- conservative,
- inconsequent,
- opinionated,
- sneaking,
- fussiness,
- rascally,
- reflection,
- Hypercriticism,
- quibble,
- narrow,
- machination,
- Obscuring,
- beneath one,
- poky,
- rap,
- Pettifoggery,
- peddling,
- illiberal,
- controversial,
- strict,
- small-minded,
- animadversion,
- Fussing,
- red-necked,
- Captiousness,
- ultra-conservative,
- unprogressive,
- jesuitical,
- punk,
- stiff-necked,
- old-fogyish,
- HIT,
- Mean-spirited,
- Covin,
- debate,
- stuffy,
- exception,
- strait-laced,
- unrespectable,
- polemic,
- knock,
- cavil,
- tinhorn,
- querulous,
- bickering,
- pettifogger,
- picky,
- cynical,
- abject,
- collusion,
- disputatious,
- trickery,
- hairsplitting,
- flak,
- obloquy,
- Fogging,
- scurvy,
- imbecile,
- imputation,
- pestering,
- hair-splitting,
- legalistic,
- frivolous.
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