271 synonyms found

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.
  • 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.
  • inconsiderable (adjective)
  • of no account.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • two bit,
  • piddling,
  • penny-ante,
  • derisory,
  • nickel-and-dime,
  • over critical,
  • petty,
  • overcritical,
  • nit-picking,
  • hard to please,
  • faultfinding,
  • scratcher,
  • shoestring,
  • penny ante.
  • petty (adjective)
  • 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.
  • piddling (adjective)
  • more derisory,
  • most derisory.

• n.

  • carping (noun)
  • carping.
  • caviling (noun)
  • caviling.
  • critical (noun)
  • critical.
  • nitpicking (noun)
  • nitpicking.
  • 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.
  • pettifogging (noun)
  • quibbling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • dishonest.
  • Other relevant words:
  • anally retentive.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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.