Sentence examples for even petty from inspiring English sources

Sometimes they involve prisoners, even petty criminals.

The grandeur of space has always made life on Earth feel fragile, even petty.

Crime is down, even petty crime — at least, that's what I read in my neighbor's newspaper.

Substance abuse or drug-related crimes, aggressive or unbecoming behavior, drunken driving or even petty larceny might all qualify.

Private Manning's overly restrictive and even petty treatment undermines what is otherwise a strong legal and ethical position.

In the mid-nineteen-eighties, Congress enacted federal sentencing guidelines that imposed harsh mandatory minimums for drug offenses, even petty ones.

It gets worse – it gets even pettier.

Unless my fellow man is even pettier than I suspect, raffles do not explicitly prohibit ticket folding.

But what else apart from flag waving, binge drinking, petty officialdom and even pettier rules makes Britain Britain?

And to make matters even pettier, the "Ganja Burn" rapper flooded her Instagram on Friday with photos from her cover shoot for Harper's Bazaar Vietnam, bringing this messy feud full circle. .

Petty's use of detailed numerical data (along with John Graunt) would influence statisticians and economists for some time, even though Petty's works were largely ignored by English scholars.