CHE SIGNIFICA PETTIFOGGERY IN INGLESE
pettifog
Pettifog è una formazione inglese di pettifogger, un cavaliere di dettagli. È anche un personaggio di scorta in commedia, spesso avvocato o professore. Può riferirsi a: ▪ Il signor Pettifog, un personaggio minore nel The Bloodhound Gang ▪ Larsen E. Pettifogger, un personaggio di The Wizard of Id modellato dopo Larsen E. Whipsnade in te non può ingannare un uomo onesto ...
definizione di pettifoggery nel dizionario inglese
La definizione di pettifoggery nel dizionario è l'attività di condurre casi non importanti, come un avvocato di stato inferiore, in particolare uno che è senza scrupoli o ricorre a inganno. Un'altra definizione di pettifoggery è l'attività di cavillare o agitarsi sui dettagli.
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10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «PETTIFOGGERY»
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pettifoggery nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
pettifoggery e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
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Crabb's English Synonymes
I CHICANERY, Pettifoggery. Chicanery and pettifoggery are both words of
obscure origin meaning the abuse of legal forms — trickery, sophistry, and
subterfuge in conducting a case. Pettifoggery comes from pettifogger, a legal
practitioner of ...
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Crabb's English Synonymes
CHICANERY, Pettifoggery. Chicanery and pettifoggery are both words of obscure
origin meaning the abuse of legal forms — trickery, sophistry, and subterfuge in
conducting a case. Pettifoggery comes from pettifogger, a legal practitioner of ...
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Relevance in Argumentation
6. DIVERSION. AND. PETTIFOGGERY. The solution to the problem of analyzing
fallacies of irrelevance comes in two parts. One is the problem of exposing the
underlying structure of a relevant argument that has probative weight. This task
has ...
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Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to ...
Like all the great comedies of Russia, The Pettifoggery deals with the negative
sides of social life, and lays bare the corruption of officialdom. The plot of the play
is as follows : Pettifog devises a plan by which he is to get hold of the property of
...
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Print, Manuscript, & Performance: The Changing Relations of ...
In this version, the queen comes close to calling common law procedure absurd
and superficial pettifoggery, at least in relation to a woman of the "quality" of Mary
Queen of Scots. Of course it is possible that her remarks were elaborated upon ...
Arthur F. Marotti, Michael D. Bristol,
2000
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I Always Look Up the Word Egregious
pettifoggery The result of such pettifoggery (barring Soviet scientists from
professional meetings in the United States) can only be to keep away from
America all significant international meetings, leaving Americans who are curious
about ...
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Situation Ethics: The New Morality
MORALISM A second deadly distortion is moralism. Just as legalism absolutizes
law and pietism individualizes piety, so moral- ism trivializes morality. It reduces
ethics to pettifoggery or microethics, like the "microeconomics" John Galbraith ...
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Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms
On the one hand, we here have legal pettifoggery. In legal pettifoggery, it is not
objective points which are weighed against one another; in~ stead, concepts
lead an entirely abstract fight. On the other hand, the conflict is sometimes
delegated ...
Donald N. Levine, Georg Simmel,
2011
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Biodiversity and Environment
25 PESTICIDE PETTIFOGGERY S.K. Agarwal It is often said, and rightly so that
war is too important a business to be left to the generals. By the same analogy,
there is absolutely nothing for us to dwell in fear of the situation where it can be ...
Shyam Kishor Agarwal, Swarnlata Tiwari,
1996
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Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers: Over 2,300 Emotive, ...
pettifoggery (PET-ee-fog-er-ee). Petty dishonesty or trickery. “Let's put all this
PETTIFOGGERY behind us,” said Mr. Powers, “and start dealing with each other
in a more straightforward manner.” rogue (rohg). A scoundrel; a dishonest person
; ...
David Olsen, Michelle Bevilaqua, Justin Cord Hayes,
2014
10 NOTIZIE DOVE SI INCLUDE IL TERMINE «PETTIFOGGERY»
Vedi di che si parla nei media nazionali e internazionali e come viene utilizzato il termine ino
pettifoggery nel contesto delle seguenti notizie.
Birds of a Feather: Two classics of Indian ornithology get a new life
They distrusted the taxonomic pettifoggery of the life sciences lab and produced lucid, wry and very human accounts of the wild. «The Indian Express, lug 15»
Response to the Critique of my Critique of Buhari's Inaugural Speech
I admit that fussing over the grammatical propriety of the phrase “in rain” is pettifoggery. So the writer was right to call my objection a “quibble,” ... «Daily Trust, lug 15»
Flunking the smell test
The ruling establishment has unleashed, with unabated vigour and aggression, a torrent of pettifoggery in order to refute any suggestion of any ... «Chandigarh Tribune, lug 15»
How Much Better Would CBS' 'Zoo' Be From the Animals' Perspective?
Kristen's anti-corporation blog she runs under a pseudonym is discovered by her editor due to Kristen's constant use of the word pettifoggery. «New York Observer, lug 15»
Zoo, The New TV Show About Killer Animals, Is Fun, Mindless Fluff
(Side note: the boss recognized Jamie's prose because she's the only person ever to use the word “pettifoggery” in a news story.) Apparently ... «io9, lug 15»
Grexit: There's a good reason the world's going nuts over Greece
No amount of semantics and pettifoggery can disguise that fact which has not changed since the start of the crisis. What cannot be paid back ... «Firstpost, giu 15»
Zoo: When Animals Attack Your Summer TV Schedule
The giveaway: the frequency of the word "pettifoggery" in both Connolly's copy and the blog. "I had to look it up," admits the editor. I don't know ... «Reason, giu 15»
Supremes find an acorn
... Roberts for the majority did attempt a face-saving gesture by characterizing the petitioners' pettifoggery as a strong plain-meaning argument. «Pleasanton Weekly, giu 15»
Grexit: There's a reason the world is going bonkers over Greece
No amount of semantics and pettifoggery can disguise that fact which has not changed since the start of the crisis. What cannot be paid back ... «Firstpost, giu 15»
In praise of the bat-logo police
This gift for pettifoggery was demonstrated again this week when M Vijay was fined a quarter of his match fee for violating Paragraph 7, ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, giu 15»