Sentence examples for more petty from inspiring English sources

The resulting picture is more petty than pretty.

They want more petty criminals behind bars before they become murderers and kidnappers.

And how many more petty criminals will be consigned to prison cells because of bad law?

The great thing about the Greek gods is they're more petty than people.

Even among persons who converge from outside the community there is more petty pilfering for souvenirs than serious crime.

Their treatment of savers is more petty and, at the individual level, less serious; it does not cause penury.

There, he encounters a wide range of inhabitants whose harsh mores, petty venality, amiable frivolity, and furtive intimacies come anecdotally to the fore.

But, in practice, some are often little more than petty extortionists.

Witherspoon has blogged about the threats: The approach they're taking seems to me little more than petty bullying.

Specifically, the film deals with the insurmountable difficulties facing mentally ill inmates once they are set free, often with little more than petty cash, a ticket out of town and two weeks' worth of medication.

While many whom Krebs exposes are little more than petty thieves, the damage they can wreak on an unsuspecting researcher could be immense.