pettifoggers in English

noun
1
an inferior legal practitioner, especially one who deals with petty cases or employs dubious practices.
While the law asserts otherwise, Truth's activism demonstrates the capacity of disfranchised Americans to seize legal agency, to demand a voice ‘among the pettifoggers .’
noun

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1. The surgeons are Atomies and pettifoggers, who kill more than they cure

2. Caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders / her nagging and carping attack / thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking / a pettifogging lawyer's mind / had no patience with quibbling critics Similar: