Sentence examples for been petty from inspiring English sources

The opposition, meanwhile, has been petty and vituperative.

Some had been petty traders in Iraq, others were the splinters of a shattered middle class.

Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel have pointed out, he doesn't appear to have been petty or hypocritical.

Quite a few had been petty collaborators themselves, and sought to divert attention from their own lack of resistance credentials.

Some of the E.D.L.'s troublemaking has been petty, but a 2010 assault on Big John's fast-food restaurant, in Leicester, was genuinely terrifying.

"The occupation had for the most part been peaceful, although there had been petty acts of vandalism and breaches of University health and safety policy.

Would that be petty?

Am I being petty?

"There are petty misunderstandings.

It's petty.

Or am I being petty?