[onlybeforenoun] (rare, old-fashioned) paying too much attention to unimportant details; concerned with unimportant things:
pettifogging officials * pettifogging little details
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, pettifogging is tagged as adjective.
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