"petty-fog" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "petty-fogs",
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    },
    {
      "form": "petty-fogging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "petty-fogged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "petty-fogged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "pettifog"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1786, Arthur Murphy, Works - Volume 7, page 31:",
          "text": "By works of darkness hopes to rise to day, And damns a brief, and petty-fogs a play; Cabals and plots, and wriggles for a name, And shrinks and withers at a rival's fame;",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of pettifog"
      ],
      "id": "en-petty-fog-en-verb-DTXV~S7h",
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          "pettifog",
          "pettifog#English"
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  ],
  "word": "petty-fog"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "petty-fogs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "petty-fogging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "petty-fogged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "petty-fogged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "petty-fog (third-person singular simple present petty-fogs, present participle petty-fogging, simple past and past participle petty-fogged)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "pettifog"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1786, Arthur Murphy, Works - Volume 7, page 31:",
          "text": "By works of darkness hopes to rise to day, And damns a brief, and petty-fogs a play; Cabals and plots, and wriggles for a name, And shrinks and withers at a rival's fame;",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of pettifog"
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          "pettifog#English"
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  "word": "petty-fog"
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