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Meanings of little in inglês
Sinônimos
Examples for "petty"
Examples for "petty"
1
Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett said the group were playing petty politics.
2
Which was true, of course, and petty of me to bring up.
3
I don't have time to resolve these petty family squabbles right now.
4
Oppression, daily petty harassment and humiliation are the breeding ground for violence.
5
The provost, however, had never wasted his time with such petty artifice.
1
Consumers are 'overwhelmed with relatively trivial choices' says a professor of psychology.
2
Did he think her family morally trivial for keeping a clean house?
3
Changes to the Constitution are not done for trivial or transient reasons.
4
I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and inference.
5
There's a tendency to attribute far too much importance to trivial developments.
1
Guess that means I can finally start fiddling with your financial records.
2
I may have helped it freeze by fiddling with certain environmental controls.
3
He was fiddling with the carriage release, exasperated, tugging at the paper.
4
But once you start fiddling with the facts, it's hard to stop.
5
Rupert bristled at the order, but he began fiddling with a console.
1
Everything from diet to niggling little health problems could be causing problems.
2
I need it ASAP. The U.S. case had left a niggling fear.
3
Unfortunately, the beauty of the concept is marred by two niggling problems.
4
But no matter how much sense I made, the niggling had started.
5
Yet there was something niggling about Elder's demeanor, a small discordant something.
1
That is not patriotism, but a picayune partisanship which I profoundly pity.
2
You kant show the poor man he's ever took a picayune from.
3
No, sir, it's hot your picayune drop o' spirits that's talkin'-it'sme.
4
He had no reason to think that Cissie cared a picayune about him.
5
Then tossing her a picayune, he said, take that, Aunt Dilsey.
1
Humanity was far too obsessed with numerous piddling things of no interest.
2
A piddling string of munition factories in New York and New Jersey.
3
She was sitting at a table, piddling with a deck of cards.
4
All they've got usually is piddling little Morris Eights or Austin Sevens.
5
You're highly unlikely to do time, especially given your piddling payouts.
1
Inland & Armco, two relatively piffling corporations had not yet boosted prices.
2
I've got out of dead-and-alive Wolvercote at last-stupidCouncillors and piffling necromancers!
3
The Taoiseach and Mr Molloy see it as a piffling matter.
4
Don't be an old maid, Ern, with your piffling German conscientiousness.
5
The poor Central Bank of Ireland only holds a piffling $90 million.
1
She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it.
2
I'm not such an ass as to fall off a footling balcony.
3
Despite Lhel's efforts, the second child came wrong way around, a footling breach.
4
For these two years, therefore, C na T has spent its time footling.
5
Fidgeting, footling, while a companion looked on, and occasionally shifted position.
Usage of little in inglês
1
Europe is a different competition and little errors can change the game.
2
The case poses little if any threat to human health, officials said.
3
And some believe market actually picked up a little bit last year.
4
The group also had little time for talk of the euro crisis.
5
The government has so far given away little detail of its plans.
6
In southern Europe we accept society to be a little bit messy.
7
He needed a little celebration, given the events of the past year.
8
Specific preparation is key; as little as possible is left to chance.
9
A little while she was silent; and seemed in debate with herself.
10
France wanted some; Austria more; Prussia a little; Russia a few millions.
11
Everything from diet to niggling little health problems could be causing problems.
12
She needs lots of rest, good food, as little stress as possible.
13
Often a little talk is all that's necessary to resolve these problems.
14
But certainly the result of his day's research gave him little confidence.
15
Friends of democracy and free speech, help me mobilize a little here.
16
Work -related matters may apply a little pressure in terms of time.
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