Sentence examples for was petty from inspiring English sources

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was petty

adjective

Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.

  • Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. (Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1671)

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I was petty, but pettiness is the privilege of the powerful.

His thing was petty theft," he said.

The aggrieved LeSueur, O'Hara decided, was petty.

Some of the skirmishing was petty.

Even their incest was petty and banal".

Templer, said that the action was petty & spiteful.

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Would that be petty?

Am I being petty?

"There are petty misunderstandings.

Or am I being petty?

This is petty and small.

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