Meanings (ES + gloss)
abogadillo • buscapleitos • leguleyo • picapleitos • rábula • soplacausas • tinterillo
An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.
"An inn, or a tavern . . . these are places where greasy citizens take pipe and pot, where the knavish pettifoggers of the law spunge on their most unhappy victims.
This gentleman (for such he was, however strange ladies who class country attorneys with vulgar pettifoggers in fashionable novels may deem the assertion) was the son of a brave of…
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