Sentence examples for both petty from inspiring English sources

The charges against him are both petty and severe.

But to point that out is both petty and beside the point.

Yet he has been caught up in a squabble that is both petty and revealing.

The official organisation of national football preserved these divisions in ways both petty and toxic.

Arpaio, throughout his tenure, specialized in meting out theatrical punishments both petty and cruel.

But I know that what I am seeing looks both petty and mean.

William Petty on the Order of Nature provides a scholarly edition of the fullest version of the text, and in an introductory study assesses the Scale in relation both to Petty's own thought and to the religious, philosophical, political, and literary dynamics of the later seventeenth century.

There seemed in Petty both the joy of doing the thing he loved and the burden of performance, the tremendous physical and psychic cost of leading a beloved band for so long.

After all, although Merah was in the sights of police "both as a petty criminal and a suspected jihadist" following at least two trips to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, he was nonetheless "able to amass an arsenal of weapons and carry out three separate killings," writes Alan Philps in U.A.E.'s The National.

Both men had complicated family backgrounds; both were petty criminals and investigators believe they turned to Salafism in prison.

"I had gotten to know both RICHARD PETTY and KYLE PETTY," Love said.