Pettifogger in a sentence as a noun

Having programmed for 50 years and going strong, why would I want to submerge myself in pettifoggery?

These people, with their just-asking questions and vapid open letters, are dullards and bores, pettifoggers and casuists, cowards and dissemblers...

It's talking circles and full of fun word phrases like "chronophage", "pettifogger".> That's a quote from the book, which the reviewer does say "...some will find unbearably pretentious"Sure.

Pettifogger definitions

noun

a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods

See also: shyster

noun

a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections

See also: quibbler caviller caviler