Sentence examples for petty way from inspiring English sources

Refused to pay workers a living wage or clawed it back in some viciously petty way?

It is hostile, in a petty way, on trivial points and uncritical on any matter of substance.

"That desperation of how do you stand your ground with dignity versus standing your ground in a really petty way".

It's as if Wright were announcing to viewers that he's putting on a sort of play, calling attention in a fussy and petty way to his own artifice.

On Monday, he did just that, first with his inexplicable, dangerous decision to override the intelligence community on the release of classified documents, and then in restricting legal immigration — in the most cruel and petty way one could imagine.

Soon, however, the program was exported to other precincts where, Mr. Anemone said, it evolved into largely a bicycle summons program, and was tarred as a petty way to ticket people for riding bicycles that lacked bells.

He despised his admirers, toward whom, Emerson wrote, he "was never affectionate, but superior, didactic, — scorning their petty ways".

The authorities also got back at us in petty ways (including the suspension of driver's licenses and confiscation of typewriters).

Two looks at some of the stranger costs of war, worth reading together: First, in how many petty ways can the money for the Iraq war be stolen?

By Amy Davidson Sorkin March 15 , 2010Two looks at some of the stranger costs of war, worth reading together: First, in how many petty ways can the money for the Iraq war be stolen?

Unless you are steeped in the privilege debates already, the book will be most striking for its obsessively narrow focus, and for its expenditure of Bovy's analytic and writing talents on a work that explores the vicious and petty ways people talk about a concept more than it interrogates the truth of the concept itself.