Sentence examples for very petty from inspiring English sources

He always treated Mugabe with absolute correctness and deference, but Mugabe tended to be very petty.

Marilyn Mode, Mr. Miller's successor, said, "He is a very petty little man".

The political strategist David Garth, who was one of Mr. Carey's closest associates, once said of him: "Hugh Carey on the petty issues can be very petty.

"One of these bosses that the West is so impressed by — when he was here, he committed very petty crimes," he said.

"It would be seen as a very petty deed of a petty man," said Alexandr Mitrofanov, a political reporter for the newspaper Pravo.

"One of these bosses that the West is so impressed by when he was here, he committed very petty crimes," he said.

But from the very start, petty disciplinary measures failed to mask a lack of confidence in his own decisions.

At a thriving tech startup, there are very few petty political squabbles, everybody is too focused on survival and everybody has way too much work to do.

"It's a very silly and petty thing," she said.

He was a very small-minded, petty, jealous, mean man and a stinker of the first order". But MacLeish usually was forgiving.

The story demonstrated "a style very personal, sometimes petty, peremptory, and a style that demands a high degree of loyalty," he said.