bagatelle
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In a summer dominated by a retelling of history’s most well-known monster-plagued sea voyage, “The Devil’s Mouth” may seem like a mere bagatelle, a non-Imax drop in the brine ‘n’ blood-splattered hero’s journey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The multimillionaire said that $100,000 “was a bagatelle to me” and that the loan was simply “a personal transaction based on old-time friendship.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
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
I am a bagatelle, the book declares, without consequence, and without a care that time is scarce and comedy a serious business.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2019
If he had said bagatelle, people would not have so much minded.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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