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

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

In 2008, he made his first feature, “Medicine for Melancholy,” a winsome bagatelle starring Wyatt Cenac as a San Francisco hipster who embarks on a fleeting romance when a one-night-stand turns into a 24-hour walk-and-talkathon.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 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

Sir H. Seymour writes me word that he believes he is going to succeed to Lord Hertford's Irish estates, a bagatelle of �70,000 per an.!

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund