Sentence examples for a petty transgression from inspiring English sources

Dragging out the cameras for so minor a crime contributes to the anxiety and distrust associated with a surveillance society, alienating neighbor from neighbor, a high price to pay to thwart a petty transgression.

The list of petty transgressions used to justify the lynching of African-Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was cruelly and exhaustingly long.

Maybe we can trade places: you'll see how it feels to drive like a maniac untouched by John Law, I'll experience the thrill of bringing the hammer down on petty transgressions as violators beg in vain for mercy.

Reiss does something else that grated on me, although it's only a petty infringement in the context of this treatment's larger transgressions.

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

I became a petty bourgeois scribe.

A petty ignorant pretender to politicks.

But that is a petty detail.

He really is a petty, silly man.

"He's a petty tyrant," she said.

This may seem like a petty concern.