7 sentences with 'petty'
Example sentences and phrases with the word petty and other words derived from it.
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• « It had irritated him, but he was sensible enough to think of murdering someone for having such petty trifles. »
• « Posing as a unifying force above the strife of petty politics, Louis Napoleon was genuinely popular across class and regional lines throughout France. »
• « When the laws came to light, many Greeks were scandalized by them: petty theft was punishable by death, and if someone could not pay his debts, he fell into slavery. »
• « "If you weren't such an obtuse, petty little man," he added, "I'd almost think you planned the whole thing. I'd have calculated that nobody was going to believe me when I told! By God, the plan is too perfect!" »
• « Martin Luther could not understand how anyone deserved to be admitted to heaven, no matter how many good works they performed in life - the very idea seemed petty and vile compared to the awesome responsibility of living according to the moral standards of Christianity. »
• « Moreover, the parties in the Duma (Russian representative assembly) had no experience in actually governing, and quickly descended into infighting and petty squabbling, leaving most of the real decisions where they had always been: with the tsar himself and his circle of aristocratic advisors. »
• « The scale of that violence on a global scale far exceeded any of the relatively petty disputes that had constituted European warfare itself up to that point - the only European war to approach the level of bloodshed caused by imperialism was probably the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century, but imperialism's death toll was far greater still. »
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