English Dictionary

pettifogger

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɛtɪˌfɒɡə/

名詞

Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry. / An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.

日本語の意味

些細なことで口うるさい人、雑に議論する人 / 非倫理的で下手な弁護士、卑劣な弁護士

The committee ignored the pettifogger who spent the entire meeting raising trivial objections instead of offering solutions.

委員会は、解決策を示す代わりに会議中ずっと些細なことにこだわって瑣末な異議を唱える詭弁家を無視した。

意味（1）

Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.

Hence the cunning measure of appointing as ambassador some political pettifogger skilled in delays, sophisms, and misapprehensions, and dexterous in the art of baffling argument.

意味（2）

An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.

"An inn, or a tavern . . . these are places where greasy citizens take pipe and pot, where the knavish pettifoggers of the law spunge on their most unhappy victims.

pettifoggers （ plural ）