bagatelle

Example Sentences

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But that case involved tens of thousands of dollars - a mere bagatelle compared to the monster cryptocurrency scam whose story is being told in an enthralling BBC podcast.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2019

Besides the wet bar, there’s a card table and a bagatelle table, a game derived from billiards.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2019

I am a bagatelle, the book declares, without consequence, and without a care that time is scarce and comedy a serious business.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2019

He felt moved, with no greater desire than to create a comic bagatelle, to see if he could out-Kanye Kanye, just as the poem declares.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2018

“Which do you mean is the bagatelle, Etheldene, my life, or the saving of it?”

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon