He was going through the petty details. [adjective]
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He did petty observance of the regulations. [adjective]
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It was a petty desire for revenge. [adjective]
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Petty constables were also unpaid, chosen from the people in a community to do the job for a year. [adjective]
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Derided by the critics, this show has managed to turn their petty words into straw with contemptuous ease. [adjective]
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They have sunk their richest argosies at Barking Creek to block the river; but the Dutch break chains, ride over sunken ships, laugh our petty defences to scorn. [adjective]
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Her womanly pride revolted at such petty schooling--that she should be bidden to accept this young man gratefully, because he was her only suitor. [adjective]
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There was not a sound but the ripple of the unseen river, and the distant cry of a watchman in Petty France, till the clash of swords began. [adjective]
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All the great uses of a noble life brought down to petty observances and childish mummeries, prayers and genuflections before waxen relics and dressed-up madonnas. [adjective]
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Shakespeare's characters are painted not from the petty models of yesterday and to-day, but from mankind in every age and every climate. [adjective]
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Years ago I have heard that there used to be no especial good-will between your family and mine--petty disputes about boundaries, no doubt. [adjective]
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