Sentence examples for make it petty from inspiring English sources

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If you want to disrespect someone, the best thing to do is make it personal, nothing petty (i.e. you're a jerk) Don't ever make it petty.

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If you want to trust someone, make it a petty criminal, he says; they're never late and they never scare.

One: if you're going to launch a premeditated major-label attack on someone, at least make it properly petty – I'm talking genitalia size, "your mum" digs, the whole shebang.

"If they could make it look bad, Mr. Petty could come in and buy a bigger share," he testified.

This will make it easy to reimburse petty cash payments.

If Petty can make it work now, it may foretell a resurgence of the sport.

"What do you want me to do, dial 911?" She made it sound unbelievably petty.

So Iovine gave it to Petty who made it a smash.

From the beginning, Hogan said, the Dutch had issued petty rules that had made it harder to accomplish the mission.

The lesson of Jesus is a message about what it means to be human that's so radical, it makes our petty squabbles about what it means to be a "real man" seem hopelessly animalistic and juvenile.  .

His slightly tetchy suggestion that a stewards' hearing into Nico Rosberg's excessive speed under the yellow flag might give him an extra championship point was ill-considered on two counts: it made him look petty and it turned out to be wrong.

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