Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a petty manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a petty manner; frivolously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
petty manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a petty way
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Examples
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That and the fact that long after any pettily deriding comments have been swallowed up into the obscurity of the aether, the larger work will remain.
"This is my dream. I make the path." readingthedark 2010
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That and the fact that long after any pettily deriding comments have been swallowed up into the obscurity of the aether, the larger work will remain.
"This is my dream. I make the path." readingthedark 2010
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Are we “pettily reactionary and positively fatal to life”?
Archive 2009-05-17 2009
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It's always a long-winded, grandstanding, pettily partisan affair (show me a Council budget debate which isn't); this year's was no exception.
There's seven hours of my life I'll never get back Stephen Tall 2007
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He thought Christians were irrational, self-deceived, repressed, and arrogant; he took Christian morality to be pettily reactionary and positively fatal to life…3.
Archive 2009-05-17 2009
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It's always a long-winded, grandstanding, pettily partisan affair (show me a Council budget debate which isn't); this year's was no exception.
Archive 2007-02-01 Stephen Tall 2007
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Are we “pettily reactionary and positively fatal to life”?
Verdict: guilty! 2009
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China reacted the way a nation reacts: somewhat pettily.
Scott Malcomson: Nationalism Is Back! Adieu, Davos Man? 2009
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He thought Christians were irrational, self-deceived, repressed, and arrogant; he took Christian morality to be pettily reactionary and positively fatal to life…3.
Verdict: guilty! 2009
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It's really one that shouldn't be pettily dismissed, whether it completely works or not.
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