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Look, of course it makes celebrities look weak and petty to get all het up about Chris Discourse now — Now!

For another, many of the alleged crimes, like petty theft, are not that serious—while others aren’t specified at all.

What she is watching is mostly petty trivialities, and the power of the novel comes from Batuman’s ability to render those trivialities worthwhile.

Imagine a president using that awesome power again for good rather than for exacting petty revenge on real and imagined enemies.

Another employee reported Carson searched a school site looking for employees mishandling petty cash.

Aunty Rosa had credited him in the past with petty cunning and stratagem that had never entered into his head.

On the 25th of November following the magistrates began to sit daily at Petty Sessions.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

He became the low-born, petty tradesman, using the language of the hands of his jam factory.

He would give them money to return to their lines and for petty expenses en route.

Of the numerous petty divinities which watched over the child's early years we have already given some account.

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