pettifoggery (n.)

• artifice
• bickering
• chicane
• chicanery
• collusion
• connivance
• conspiracy
• covin
• dodging
• equivocation
• evasion
• fencing
• hairsplitting
• hedging
• machination
• paltering
• prevarication
• shifting
• shuffling
• skulduggery
• sleight
• subterfuge
• tergiversation
• trickery