bagatelle
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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
A bagatelle the length of a pop song, Beethoven’s trifle is recognizable from the start: a wobble between E and D sharp that gives way to a tune you’ve heard virtually everywhere.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 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
Aside from a small display at the entrance featuring an 1800s-era bagatelle and amusing assortment of objects inside vintage machines, visitors are left to self-discovery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 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 Laurence Sterne
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