pettifogging v italijanskem slovarju Oxford-Paravia

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pettifogging [brit. angl. ˈpɛtɪfɒɡɪŋ, am. angl. ˈpɛdiˌfɔɡɪŋ] PRID. slabš.

pettifogging

cavilloso

pettifog <forma in -ing pettifogging, 1. pret., del. Pf. pettifogged> [brit. angl. ˈpɛtɪfɒɡ, am. angl. ˈpɛdiˌfɔɡ, ˈpɛdiˌfɑɡ] GLAG. nepreh. glag. arh.

pettifog

cavillare, fare il leguleio

Prevodi za pettifogging v slovarju italijanščina»angleščina

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pettifogging

pettifogging v slovarju PONS

Prevodi za pettifogging v slovarju angleščina»italijanščina

pettifogging [ˈpe·t̬ɪ·fɑ:·gɪŋ] PRID. slabš.

pettifogging person

cavilloso, -a

pettifogging paperwork

farraginoso, -a

pettifogging details

insignificante

Enojezični primeri (nepregledani od uredništva PONS)

angleščina

They would rather allow pettifogging criticism to be a fig leaf, a way to distance themselves from danger.

www.slate.com

Academics supposedly indulge in pettifogging to obscure their own muddled thinking.

chronicle.com

These issues are almost pettifogging matters, and yet a relationship will emerge.

www.digitaljournal.com

They thought it unfair that this "unpaid" labour should be rewarded by a pettifogging clipping of their pay packet because of one hour's industrial action.

www.nzherald.co.nz

Private organisations are just as pettifogging as those run by the state.

www.dailymail.co.uk

This pettifogging vindictiveness is utterly unnecessary and shames us all.

www.theage.com.au

Proponents who argue that alcohol is legal are merely pettifogging the debate.

news.nationalpost.com

There is no longer a repressive state system with an army of pettifogging censors to rebel against, to mock -- or even to ignore.

www.independent.co.uk