bagatelle
Example Sentences
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If anything, the slowly accumulating final chord of the bagatelle could have set up the softly arpeggiated one at the start of “Twilight Way,” the first of the “Poetic Tone Pictures.”
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023
“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
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
It's nothing—just a flea bite—what the French call a game of bagatelle.
From A Drake by George! by Trevena, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
