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Another option, something Briffault admits is petty but has been done before, is to slash the salaries of people at the agency responsible for the unlawful behavior, or even folks who worked on it.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

She has moved up the ladder, representing clients facing charges ranging from petty theft to homicide as well as special-circumstances cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

My doctor said he would retest my levels in a couple of weeks to be sure it wasn’t a mistake, which frankly seemed petty to me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Trade bible Variety called it a "lacerating portrait," while Deadline said the "damning" film had "thrashed" Musk as "petty, narcissistic, megalomaniacal, cruel."

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

You better be I know She’s so petty.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

“If I find him annoying, that means that maybe I’m going to come in a little bit pettier than usual,” says Martin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024

Listen, I’m sure there will be a lot of sturm und drang about what the whistleblower disclosures mean for Elon Musk’s Twitter deal, but I want to focus on something dumber and pettier: Jack Dorsey.

From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 2022

But because Doncic is an NBA all-star, his true intent probably was pettier — an insinuation that the refs were on the Suns’ payroll.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022

It’s a juicy lineup of familiar characters who are greedier and pettier than those that usually populate historical epics.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

With regard to the Somnauth gates, a pettier piece of hypercriticism, and a more palpable exhibition of hypocrisy, were never witnessed on a public question.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

Again and again, Bass went after Raman in the pettiest, most personal ways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

It’s elementary: Characters can do outlandish things, commit outrageous crimes, be inspired by the pettiest of motives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Furst insisted no topic is off the table, from the pettiest accusation to the most serious charge.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

The blog post is a tidy package of the pettiest things many of us might have thought and felt in the throes of our first cosmos-shifting romances, but were probably too self-aware to say aloud.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2018

The pettiest bit of ceremonial law is here of equal dignity with the most far-reaching principle of political obligation.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel