pettifoggery

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The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel

He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.

The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles
{i} cheating, deception; swindling
a quarrel about petty points
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