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

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

Aside from a small display at the entrance featuring an 1800s-era bagatelle and amusing assortment of objects inside vintage machines, visitors are left to self-discovery.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2018

It is scarcely too much to say that his ostentatious preference for the bagatelle was a real, and not in the least affected fact.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence