The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pettifoggery \Pet"ti*fog`ger*y\, n.; pl. pettifoggeries.
   The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks;
   quibbles; chicanery.
   [1913 Webster]

         Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries.       --Barrow.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pettifoggery
    n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering,
         spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "pettifoggery":
   artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane,
   chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin,
   dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play,
   hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, machination, nit-picking,
   paltering, parrying, pettifogging, prevarication, pussyfooting,
   quibbling, sharp practice, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping,
   skulduggery, sleight, subterfuge, supercherie, tergiversation,
   trichoschistism, trickery, underhand dealing