(v. i.) To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.
(v. t.) To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim.
Example Sentences:
(1) An Israeli commentator said of the first of them: "when one looks through all the lofty phraseology, all the deliberate disinformation, the hundreds of pettifogging sections, sub-sections, appendices and protocols, one clearly recognises that the Israeli victory was absolute and Palestine defeat abject."
(2) He’s the ultimate Gary Stu character: a billionaire beholden to no one and able to abuse every disingenuous and pettifogging remora latched headfirst on the nation and sucking upward.
Pettifogger
Definition:
(n.) A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.