bagatelle

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 is scarcely too much to say that his ostentatious preference for the bagatelle was a real, and not in the least affected fact.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence