Sentence examples for petty one from inspiring English sources

She likes to call Too Short her uncle; she features on "Petty," one of forty-four songs on E-40's 2016 album, "The D-Boy Diary".

To begin with a small question that I trust is not a trivial or a petty one: how often have you met a self-described Kerry supporter?

Who else could have played John Adams, the most misunderestimated of the founding fathers, a great man and also a petty one, possessed of an outsize sense of grievance?

The entire finger-pointing exercise is a distraction, and a petty one.

As I walked home, I acknowledged that my complaint was a petty one.

So, while what follows inevitably will unfold as a defense of philosophy (yet again! [3]), it is a principled defense, not a petty one, and it most certainly doesn't come from any kind of science envy.

But it was Sanders who was oddly on the defensive despite what has been momentum in his favor, starting out the night more combative than Clinton and wasting his time on petty one-liners.

Bratton took a counter-intuitive approach: Focus first not on the big crimes but on the everyday petty ones, like graffiti and broken windows.

She embarks on a series of petty one-line jabs against the Dems which culminates in a truly childish dig at Obama's staging in Denver, followed by the assertion that Harry Reid saying he can't stand John McCain is perhaps the best evidence they've chosen the right person.

Valcheck's petty one-upmanship leads directly to the detail discovering the Greek.

Pinochet is shown indulging in petty one-upmanship, comparing himself to the leaders of the recently overthrown government.