"pettifoggery" meaning in English

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          "text": "He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.",
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          "ref": "2011, Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, Knopf Doubleday (2011), p. 82",
          "text": "Yet even Harlan was to prove capable of grievous pettifoggery on the racial issue."
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          "text": "[Frankfurter's reasoning in Beauharnais v. Illinois] struck Black and the other three Roosevelt appointees who joined his dissent as noxious pettifoggery[.]"
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        "The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel."
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          "word": "fuss"
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          "word": "spat"
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