2 Sentences With "pettifogged"

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Presented with the first authentic democratic challenge to their rules, they pettifogged on detail and fretted about moral hazard.
They have obfuscated, delayed, lied, backtracked, pettifogged, and cancelled all sorts of commitments under the informal and formal rubrics of the Oslo process.