Sentence examples for fairly petty from inspiring English sources
He remembered Billy Williamson caning his whole class for one child's "fairly petty" offence.
The grievances against him are fairly petty: for instance, that he misstated the size of the national debt — a gaffe, to be sure, but one of a minor magnitude that most candidates would expect to make at least once or twice over the course of a campaign.
NPR called the book "a science-fiction epic of the most profound" and Barack Obama even praised it, saying that "the scope of [the book] was immense" that it made his "day-to-day problems with Congress seem fairly petty".
Yet I'm fairly certain Petty knew how it felt to be us.
Indeed, even though Black begins with its focus on the petty, fairly unlikeable Moroccan gang and its proverbial Romeo, Marwan (Aboubakr Bensaihi), the real story becomes the tragic journey of Juliet stand-in Mavella's (Martha Canga Antonio) relationship with the terrifyingly powerful, and ultra-violent, Black Bronx gang a crew with a penchant for gang rape and neighbourhood intimidation.
Indeed, even though Black begins with its focus on the petty, fairly unlikeable Moroccan gang and its proverbial Romeo, Marwan (Aboubakr Bensaihi), the real story becomes the tragic journey of Juliet stand-in Mavella's (Martha Canga Antonio) relationship with the terrifyingly powerful, and ultra-violent, Black Bronx gang a crew with a penchant for gang rape and neighborhood intimidation.
Shirley's dramatis personae tend to be fairly unpleasant folks: killers, petty criminals, drug dealers, end-of-the-line substance abusers, Hollywood sleazeballs.
In the American colonies the branding of petty criminals was fairly common but was abolished before the American Revolution.
When conflict comes up, handle it fairly instead of lashing out in a petty fashion.
It should seem fairly obvious that this is not merely a petty intra-building controversy.
