“He is a pettifogger , and surely must know that there is such a thing as feloniously breaking into a man’s house.”

So that thousands of poor English people trembled before a mysterious chieftain with an ancient destiny and a diadem of evil stars--when they are really trembling before a guttersnipe who was a pettifogger and a pawnbroker not twelve years ago.

But, what of the hundreds of thousands of minds that have been deformed for ever by the incapable pettifoggers who have pretended to form them!

It maintains luxurious lobbies* at every state capital, and at the national capital; and in all the cities and towns of the land it employs an immense army of pettifoggers and small politicians whose business is to attend primaries, pack conventions, get on juries, bribe judges, and in every way to work for its interests.**

Roger Varian's grey has been firmly on the upgrade and beat Pettifogger in impressive fashion at Lingfield this month.

On "Pepito Manaloto," he makes TV audiences laugh and love pettifogger Tommy Diones.

In what profession might ' pettifogger ' be a derogatory term for a practitioner?

In what profession might ' pettifogger ' be derogatory term for a practitioner?

A one-G lager dulls the mind, A two-G lagger, left behind, But I'll bet you a pettifogger you never met a three-G laaager.

No lawyer but a pettifogger would admit to arguing for bad science that violates the public trust.

A running loop of his films is currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (through month's end), and on March 8 and 9 the Museum of the Moving Image in New York will present a substantial program of his digital work, including The Pettifogger (2011), his first feature-length movie, and the world premiere of a new series, the "False Aging" trilogy (2008-12).