Sentence examples similar to a petty question from inspiring English sources

There were some bad and petty questions.

The Administration evidently calculates that its popularity is such that no one much cares about the petty questions of means and ends.

It could be that so much of the event ostensibly a chance for the country's last dozen or so undecided voters to ask the candidates questions was consumed by petty questions.

Those compelling questions, coupled with a petty reference about "vulture capitalism" from the departing Rick Perry, initiated Gingrich's surge last week.

He began pushing for a promotion, but got into what he termed a "petty e-mail spat" in which he questioned a senior manager's judgment.

To begin with a small question that I trust is not a trivial or a petty one: how often have you met a self-described Kerry supporter?

So when his cousin, Mr. Hampton, a petty criminal, was in police custody in an unrelated matter in 2008, detectives arrived to question him about his cousin.

A petty criminal with convictions of his own, Smith was amused when the conversation turned to murder and he questioned Brady's ability to follow it through.

I became a petty bourgeois scribe.

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

A petty ignorant pretender to politicks.