Sentence examples similar to petty question from inspiring English sources

There were some bad and petty questions.

The Administration evidently calculates that its popularity is such that no one much cares about the petty questions of means and ends.

It could be that so much of the event ostensibly a chance for the country's last dozen or so undecided voters to ask the candidates questions was consumed by petty questions.

It can seem peevish and petty to question his work, but it is not beyond criticism.

It seems petty to question these differences in a story of life and death, but they make everything ring less true.

To publish as a woman was to be categorized as trivial, sentimental, concerned with life's petty surface questions rather than its deep truths.

"In the grand scheme of things, the severe civil rights abuses by Clinton-Obama-Comey regime carried out against myself and other supporters of the Trump campaign in their illegal attempts to influence the 2016 election will help clarify how irrelevant all these petty side-questions are," he said.

To add to that, the experiment also cannot involve drones of any kind, preventing college freshmen from settling petty physics questions that often ask about objects thrown into the interior of moving vehicles.

But Petty asked the question that Johnson is getting used to answering.

Priebus insisted "while debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates' visions and policies for the future of America, CNBC's moderators engaged in a series of 'gotcha' questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates".

The question for Petty — and the broader economy — is how long people like her will be able to hold on.