Sentence examples for much petty from inspiring English sources

"There's so much petty jealousies," Pitino said.

She brings to life the site's mission to cover "petty enthusiasms", which aren't so much petty as very specific and personal – much in the way that the interview nearly consisted entirely of a chat about Nora Ephron and When Harry Met Sally.

I can't believe that your concept of masculinity involves that much petty vanity and pointless displays of competitive ego in some... self-invented contest," she concludes - not seeing that if it were not for petty vanity and pointless displays of competitive ego, mostly in meaningless self-invented contests, we would have no concept of masculinity at all.

Just never so widely, and never with quite as much petty detail.

Simon Fowler has commented that "it is clear that this [the awarding of contracts] involved much petty corruption, and it was indeed endemic throughout the Poor Law system".

A couple dozen of their confreres had been killed or severely wounded in the Wednesday and Friday attacks launched by the self-proclaimed followers of Al Qaeda, who were as much petty criminals as they were jihadists.

But few are eager to disavow it because it makes everyone involved, including prosecutors (and journalists), actors in a great tragedy rather than witnesses to a much pettier scheme.

It was a much pettier, more narcissistic version of Channel 4 News appearing at former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie's house to ask him about the "paper's coverage of the Hillsborough tragedy".

The CIA is as much a petty bureaucracy as a killing machine.

Jong Jo, secretary of North Korea's UN mission, told NBC New York there's no way his country could owe that much in petty fines.

Obviously HR can't do much about petty squabbles or a heavy workload, but when things escalate to a point where they are affecting the quality of your work, consider making an HR visit.