Sentence examples for A petty mistake from inspiring English sources

Both the original developers of the building and a Vancouver city planner confirmed to the CBC that the tower is indeed 63 storeys, which the latter mocked as a petty mistake.

But as "tiresome" as these petty mistakes are, you repeated Lord Ashdown's more remarkable howler of elevating Kurt Kiesinger to the largely ceremonial office of president of Germany.

The Housing Authority has recently started clamping down on offenses they previously let slide, and more residents are receiving notices for petty mistakes, Thelmy said.

Dressed in a light-blue shirt and gray trousers, he could have easily been mistaken for a petty Tamil businessman".

A popular politician caught in a sex scandal, a petty crook who makes the regrettable mistake of stealing a crime boss's car, two police officers tempted by a stash of drug money, and the strange young man who watched over Brendan's grandson during the robbery all play their fated roles in this thoughtful look at how good people can go bad.

As his mistake escalates into a petty nightmare of covering up and desperate scrambling, he meets and seduces his dream girl (Sarah Overman), a high-powered lawyer, by leading her to believe that he, too, is a lawyer -- not "just a secretary," as he is frequently wont to describe himself.

I became a petty bourgeois scribe.

voguer, Fr.] A petty small-rate lawyer.

A petty ignorant pretender to politicks.

But that is a petty detail.

He really is a petty, silly man.