1. On my part, I will go back to pettifogging . 2. I certainly find much of your comments disingenuous pettifogging . 3. I dislike this relentless pettifogging to score points) 4. Romney is vindicated _ and the Democratic Party looks picayune, pettifogging , and petrified. 5. His pettifogging filibuster has two dangers. 6. Harvard's pettifogging trademark office succeeded in scaring the beer out of the Cambridge-Boston area. 7. It may be a small example, but it makes a large point about the pettifogging nature of the federal bureaucracy. 8. We must learn to lay off from these endless wild accusations or pettifogging wars, and think a little more creatively. 9. The purpose of government is to safeguard our rights, not to regiment people through a host of senseless, pettifogging regulations. 10. When all the invention and pettifogging arguments are finished, the inescapable fact is that Israel has been colonizing the occupied territories.