bagatelle
Example Sentences
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“Ma Belle, My Beauty” may be a mere bagatelle, but it’s a diverting and attractive one.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021
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
Reynard the Fox has returned — and it is here that Handler’s bagatelle ceases to be a bagatelle.
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
He could not repress his scorn for the man who could throw away his crown for such a bagatelle as the Church of England.
From Henrietta Maria by Haynes, Henrietta
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