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pettifogger

noun as in ambulance chaser

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noun as in caviler

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noun as in impostor

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noun as in shyster

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Example Sentences

Now, which was the best pedigree, that of the son of the pastry-cook, or that of the son of the pettifogger?

Thinking it well beneath me to measure words with this knavish pettifogger, I looked beyond him and spoke to his master.

A happy thought suggested itself—one worthy of the unscrupulous theological pettifogger that he is.

Pettifogger, pet′i-fog-ėr, n. a lawyer who practises only in paltry cases.

Anything can be proved by two false witnesses—thinks the pettifogger.

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