bagatelle

Example Sentences

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If there was a misstep on Tuesday, it was in following the bagatelle with Beethoven’s “Pathétique” Sonata, which might have provided an impassioned climax had it not been performed with such a level head.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

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

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