Sentence examples for bit petty from inspiring English sources

Otherwise you just look a bit petty.

It's a bit petty, but credit him for not going the easy route and making a Bill Belichick joke.

It seems illogical, not to mention a bit petty, of the Spanish to demand the return of Gibraltar while they cling to their toeholds on the Moroccan side.

And, second, because it seems a bit petty to debate Times policy instead of larger issues like, for example, genocide in Darfur.

David Margolick's review of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s "Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008" (Dec. 11) was intellectually rich but also a bit petty and dismissive.

After which, Home Fires (ITV, Sunday) – squabbling and blackberry jam-making at the Cheshire village of Great Paxton's branch of the WI – all seemed a bit petty and parochial, I'm afraid.

Saying you wanted to will do but sounds a bit petty- and will give girls a serious warning sign about the reason either being very serious or they'll think you're temperamental.

However trivial the crime and perverse its motivations, this bit of petty larceny had enormous consequences: for the teen-ager's future, for the history of Christianity and Western philosophy, and for the layout of your local Barnes & Noble superstore.

Most of us know each other within one or two degrees; we are every bit as petty, insular and desperate as such a class can possibly be.

Their behavior might be questionable (binge drinking, a bit of petty fraud, eating at Arby's) but hardly resembles the sort of chicanery enjoyed by the Bad Santa, the Bad Lieutenant, or even the Bad President.

When they fall from grace, their crimes — baking brownies and eating the entire batch, spying on the neighbors, dabbling in a bit of petty fraud to stave off homelessness — are the sort of misdemeanors that we ourselves may have committed, or at least considered.