avocasser
French, verb/a.vɔ.ka.se/
avocasser is a French verb meaning “to practise as a lawyer poorly and without dignity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exercer sans dignité et sans talent la profession d’avocat”.
What does avocasser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to practise as a lawyer poorly and without dignity
- 2
to cavil; to make petty, pedantic, sophistical, or contemptible arguments; to pettifog; to rules lawyer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exercer sans dignité et sans talent la profession d’avocat. 2. Employer de préférence des arguments captieux et sans valeur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of avocasser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- avocassant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- avocassé participle past
- avocasse first-person indicative present
- avocasses indicative present second-person
- avocassons first-person indicative plural
- avocassez indicative plural present
- avocassent indicative plural present
- avocassais first-person imperfect indicative
- avocassait imperfect indicative singular
- avocassions first-person imperfect indicative
- avocassiez imperfect indicative plural
- avocassaient imperfect indicative plural
- avocassai first-person historic indicative
- avocassas historic indicative past
- avocassa historic indicative past
- avocassâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avocasser?
- /a.vɔ.ka.se/
- \a.vɔ.ka.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avocasser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.