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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Wed Jan 22, 2020, 11:49 AM Jan 2020

M-W Word of the day: Pettifogger



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📈'Pettifogger'
- one given to quibbling over trifles
- a lawyer whose methods are petty, underhanded, or disreputable

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8:24 AM - Jan 22, 2020


It's one of those words that sounds like it means what it really means (petty fogging).
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M-W Word of the day: Pettifogger (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 OP
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit... Wounded Bear Jan 2020 #1
Fits Spanky's clown car defense perfectly. greatauntoftriplets Jan 2020 #2
I didn't know that second one. Of course, "fogging." Hortensis Jan 2020 #3

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3. I didn't know that second one. Of course, "fogging."
Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 12:00 PM
Jan 2020

Dirty politicians wouldn't get far at all without sowing that combination of deceit and confusion they hide the truth about themselves in.

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