Sentence examples for rather petty from inspiring English sources

All of a sudden, my books seem rather petty".

There's no logical reason for it, except as a rather petty gesture calculated to annoy Iran.

But in San Francisco, the consensus is that the lawsuit is rather petty.

"I have to say there was a rather petty sense of self-satisfaction of sticking one up to them," says McClaren.

In the red corner Reprints Related items Northern Ireland: In the footsteps of giantsSep 20th 2007The younger Mr Paisley's requests appear to have been rather petty, considering the momentous occasion on which they were made.

I did, years ago, visit a Freudian therapist who gave me a box of hankies and encouraged me to churn up what seemed even to me to be rather petty resentments from the distant past.

The evil in this world arises not out of any grand metaphysical principle, but rather from petty, permanent features of the human character: greed, envy, stupidity, vanity.

These are the issues, rather than petty point scoring, that should focus the minds of the Super League clubs and the RFL when they meet in Hull on Wednesday.

Then tell everyone that the poems are about "feelings," so that people think you're deep and tormented by past romantic relationships, rather than petty and tormented by candy.

What was fascinating, and horrible, about Frey and his Red Wedding is that this man is no implacable Tywin Lannister but rather a petty tyrant dwelling on a perceived injustice until it consumes him.

Bissinger tells the story of the hunt for the violin, but also tells the strange tale of the thief responsible — who was not a master heister but rather a petty criminal named Salah Salahadyn who had become fixated on the idea of stealing a Stradivarius.