Similar words: pettish, petticoat, dogged, doggedly, petty, setting, vetting, dagger. Meaning: ['petɪfɑgə(r) /-fɒ-] 
n. 1. a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods 2. a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.
n. 1. a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods 2. a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections. 
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1. The lawyer which are the offspring of legal pettifogger have different fate and trade, but we still should try to advance their status by institutional method.
2. The legal pettifogger system is a key point in Chinese traditional culture, but the academic paid less attention and the material which is known is limited.
3. Although legal pettifogger struggle in daily life and they didn't have status but they have exist necessity in social.
4. In China's traditional legal history, have presented the legal pettifogger similar to lawyer really belong to the Chinese result, is influencing the modern lawyer's system to a great extent.
5. The second part discussed about the reason why ruler suppressed the legal pettifogger and the public despised them.
6. Under the blow and forbiddance from the government, secret pettifogger handbooks of the Ming and Qing Dynasty didn t disappear, but become perfect and systematic.
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