To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy; fastidious in small matters.
Defn: To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
For the judge is in some sort a legislator, at any rate in small matters; and his decisions growing into precedents, must determine the innumerable details which arise out of the conflict of circumstances.
The wardens of the country, like the Forty at Athens, also exercised judicial power in small matters, as well as the wardens of the agora and city.
Through deficiency in self-control in small matters a similar deficiency on great occasions slowly arises.
Acquitting himself creditably in small matters, he was at length entrusted with cases of greater importance.
A man's character is seen in small matters; and from even so slight a test as the mode in which a man wields a hammer, his energy may in some measure be inferred.
And we must practise ourselves in small matters, and exercise ourselves in little things, with a view to refusing people who importune us, or would receive from us when inconvenient, that we may be able to avoid great miscarriages.
For such flights and repulses, keeping you in practice in trying to overcome your bashfulness in small matters, will prepare you for greater occasions.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small matters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
