Sentence examples for quite petty from inspiring English sources

But while pettiness can be humorous at times (I confess, I can be quite petty), there is more going on than mere light-hearted fun.

Although both acts seem improper, they also seem quite petty.

Then again, art criticism can be quite petty.

"These are all quite petty reasons," said Cesar Molinas, the head of fixed-income strategy at Merrill Lynch in London.

Having been selected for Hawthorn's VFL side, The Box Hill Hawks, despite failing to meet the minimum games criteria to take his place, this week McEvoy was at the centre of an ugly and quite petty protest appeal by Box Hill's opponents Williamstown, who feel as though McEvoy should be barred from the upcoming VFL preliminary final between the two sides.

The sniper -- who calls Stu on the phone and issues instructions that have to be followed to the letter (or else!) -- is a sneering omniscient moralist who coerces his victim into breaking down and confessing his sins, which turn out to be quite petty.

Their demeanour is playfully contrasted with the solemnity of the bewigged judge, and most of the offences are quite minor – petty theft, defacing public statues, drunkenness in a public place.

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

Some are "rescued" from a life of petty crime; quite a few, like the shoe-bomber Richard Reid, are touched in prison.

"When you lift your hand or tongue", he asks in "Motive", "what is it moves to make you move?" The answer, in this poem, is a half-glimpsed deistic force, something transcendent but impersonal and quite indifferent to the petty concerns of humankind.

We had a rummage through the reception desk and discovered fuck all, but it still fell quite good acting like petty crooks.