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
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
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
As lighthearted, late-summer escapism goes, “Logan Lucky” is an amusing if convoluted and undisciplined bagatelle.
From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2017
I alone know what you are, and the price of my silence is a mere bagatelle.
From A Desperate Voyage by Knight, Edward Frederick
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
