Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pettifoggery

1 sense of pettifoggery

Sense 1
bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss -- (a quarrel about petty points)
       => quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup -- (an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words")