Sentence examples for looking petty from inspiring English sources

But the ballot commission has historically been lenient in interpreting residency, and the Democrats could end up looking petty.

Sometimes it is the suave senior who ends up looking petty and aggrieved, and the science geek who leaves the table looking cool.

On the one hand, if the administration publicly criticized the newspaper, Mr. Corzine risked looking petty and could just draw more attention to the photo.

Critics accused the governing African National Congress (ANC) of looking petty by apparently failing to invite Tutu, one of the most vocal campaigners for Mandela's release from jail during white minority rule.

Wade became the center of a not-so-fun-loving story of his looking petty when the clip of his actions Thursday after the Heat's shootaround at American Airlines Center was replayed on "Sports Center telecasts on Friday and Saturday more times than a Geico commercial.

After a gunman opened fire in Tucson, Arizona, earlier this year, killing six and injuring several others, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, he managed to weave a more hopeful tapestry of the US's political future from the tragedy, leaving his detractors looking petty and insubstantial.

It looked petty and trivial.

Jackson looked petty and jealous, Obama looked magnanimous.

"It looks petty in light of what happened," Jeffrey Pace said.

In the absence of a convincing explanation, it looks petty".

Recent opinion polls suggest that all this just made the Democrats look petty.