to practise as a lawyer poorly and without dignity · to cavil; to make petty, pedantic, sophistical, or contemptible arguments; to pettifog; to rules lawyer
çekim: geçmiş avocassé · ortaç avocassé · şimdiki avocasse · ulaç avocassant
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish mesquino (“poor; beggar, homeless”), also attested in the medieval period as mezquino, from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn, “poor”). The sense of “stingy” developed in the early modern period. Compare Portuguese mesquinho.
aile: mezquinar, mezquindad
Era un padre mezquino, y a sus hijos no les compraba dulces no por salud sino por ahorrar.
Sería mezquino de mi parte no perdonarte por ello cuando no tenías toda la información sobre la situación.
çekim: karşılaştırma błahszy · üstünlük najbłahszy
eş: bagatelny, banalny, drobny, mało znaczący, nic nieznaczący, nieistotny
zıt: istotny, niebagatelny
köken: Borrowed from Belarusian благі́ (blahí) or from Ukrainian благий (blahyj), from Old Church Slavonic благъ (blagŭ), from Proto-Slavic *bolgъ. Doublet of błogi (“blissful”).
negligible, slight, minor (too small to be of concern) · unimportant, insignificant, trivial, petty (not worthy of attention) · uninteresting, unremarkable, unimpressive, insignificant (having no special characteristics, not standing out in any way)
çekim: karşılaştırma jelentéktelenebb · üstünlük legjelentéktelenebb
zıt: jelentős, jelentékeny, nagy, tetemes, számottevő, fontos
köken: From the obsolete jelenték (“meaning”) + -telen (“-less, without”, privative adjective-forming suffix), from jelent (“to mean”) + -ék (noun-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.