Pettifog [verb]

● Niggle

● Bicker

● Wrangle

● Hassle

● Prevaricate

● Fence

● Avoid

● Flip-flop

● Spar

● Dispute

● Cavil

● Squabble

● Nitpick

● Carp

● Waffle

● Criticize

● Shift

● Pretend

● Evade

● Equivocate

● Blow hot and cold

● Hem and haw

● Split hairs

● Chicane

● Argufy

● Altercate

● Argue over

● Catch at straws

● Have at it

● Hypercriticize

● Make a big thing about

● Nit-pick

● Paralogize

● Pick to pieces

● Put up an argument

● Set to

● Talk back

● Meet

● Face

● Tell truth

● Agree

● Concur

● Give in

● Pettifog

● Bicker

● Brabble

● Niggle

● Quibble

● Squabble

● Chicaner

● Quibblingly

● Pettifogger

● Pedantocracy

● Nitpick

● Pedantism

● Hairsplitting

● Legalistic

● Pedantry

● Cavillation

● Argutation

● Minutia

● Cavil

● Captiousness

● Cavilingly

● Pedantic

● Technicality

● Lawyerly

● Overofficious

● Vitilitigation

● Bureaucratic

● Leguleian

● Sophistry

● Pedantize

● Casuistics

● Frible

● Petty

● Legalism

● Officious

● Legalese

● Red tape

● Nicety

● Wranglesome

● Micrology

● Bureaucracy

● Pedant

● Meddlesome

● Niggler

● Questmonger

● Bureaucrat

● Circumlocutional

● Prolixity

● Disputative

● Busybody

● Triviality

● Vexatious

● Pusil

● Casuistry

● Sanctimonious

● Meddlesomely

● Bickerer

● Collitigant

● Shyster

● Carriwitchet

● Priggism

● Pesterous

● Pernickety

● Glaver

● Brangle

● Disembrangle

● Prevarication

● Querulousness

● Faultfinding

● Parvanimity

● Sophistic

● Jigamaree

● Nudzh

● Querimony

● Bloviate

● Wrangle

● Mulishness

● Prattler

● Picayunish

● Inkhornism

● Rodomont

● Circumlocutious

● Obfuscation

● Rodomontado

● Circumlocution

● Moider

● Sanctimony

● Frivolous

● Walk on air

● Bickerment

● Whipster

● Quillet

● Dryasdust

● Technicalness

● Chicanery

● Trivial

● Rhodomontader

● Ambage

● Thorniness

● Vexation