It is true that the constant abuse of anathemas in the pettiest quarrels with officials, lay and clerical, must have somewhat blunted their effect.
It wasted its energies on the pettiest details, while distance and difficult communication forced it practically to leave important questions to the discretion of the tribunals.
It has been demonstrated by observation, and discovered by the innate sagacity of the pettiest as well as the greatest of despots, that the influence of a power is increased in proportion as its direction is rendered more central.
Whilst in Europe the same classes sometimes recalcitrate even against the supreme power, the American submits without a murmur to the authority of the pettiest magistrate.
It is at this stage that men, divided by their interests and aspirations, and incapable any longer of self-government, require directing in their pettiest acts, and that the State exerts an absorbing influence.
One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind.
You may have sincerity, but you have no modesty; out of the pettiest vanity you expose your sincerity to publicity and ignominy.
He was wrapped in overflowing delight at the thought of that audience with the Pope, which, unable as he was to confide in any one, he strove to arrange and picture in his own mind, even in its pettiest details.
A philosophic and calm-minded writer has indicated what this would involve: 'Irish members may disestablish the Church of England, though England is to have no voice in the pettiest of Irish affairs.
While in Europe the same classes sometimes recalcitrate even against the supreme power, the American submits without a murmur to the authority of the pettiest magistrate.
On the other hand, no one approaches him in the power of touching some rich chord of feeling by help of the pettiest incident.
Leave cherishing his root, And rather prune his branch, nip off the pettiest shoot Superfluous on his bough!
Nym and Bardolph were hanged for the pettiestlarceny on the field of Agincourt.
The charge for stationery is one of the pettiest and most exasperating cheese-parings of the English Boniface's system of account-keeping.
Was anything impossible in one whom he had known again and again to stoop to the pettiest forms of personal malice and vindictiveness.
Daily his companions marvelled anew at the duration of what was, to them, the pettiest of "affairs.
Perhaps we think too much of them; but we take interest in all that concerns them, even the pettiest details.
The pettiest thief, indeed, would have been ashamed of such booty; and I was, besides, in a district where no stain of dishonesty rested on the character of the inhabitants.
To-day the pettiest Mexican officer fancies himself called on, not by a political conviction, but only by his own ambition, to protect or to overturn the established government.
It made, as Green has said, an English monarch as much the creature of an act of Parliament as the pettiest taxgatherer in his realm (S497).
In some cases, even the pettiest legal formalities are dispensed with.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pettiest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
