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Third, it doesn't become a great country to act pettily.

This is no time to seem whining or pettily partisan.

We know that the Mayor's campaign this time has been puzzlingly, pettily negative.

He pettily stops the game and declares the office winners since they were winning when the foul occurred.

"I'm not a holy one any longer," Honakura said pettily.

Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily!

Particular Bligh certainly was, even pettily so.

They were not wantonly cruel, nor extortionate, nor even pettily thievish.

Good, thought Kirk, pettily.

Nancy is then horrified when Jake pettily cancels Nancy's visiting rights to Charlie.

In the very abyss of his fear and hate he came near feeling pity for people grown so pettily malignant, to play such games with helpless slaves.

But alas ..." She shrugged pettily.

One may pettily pick a flaw here and there in the tale's construction if so minded, but the moral character of Huck himself is not open to criticism.

Bryant may once have treasured Corley Court and Two Acres, but his appreciation seems to have been pettily political and careerist.

Among American Sovietologists, in the press, in American political life, there is an attitude that to raise these questions is to obstruct, to be churlish, backward, pettily anti-Communist.

She did not know why she should feel such fear, because she felt for her mother not respect, but contempt: and why should she lack courage before someone whose attitudes were to her so transparently, pettily contemptible?

The royal guests had been granted a standing invitation to Azak's daily state dinners, but after the first experience had shown what was involved, Inos had pettily declined, protesting that she was not a devotee of belly dancing.

I will not say here how I will vote, partly because it's against my newspaper's rules, but mainly because millions of undecideds would follow like lemmings and make me responsible for the result and unable to creatively backbite or pettily bicker.

The Snapping-Turtle Turks: Possibly the most pettily cruel of the Meanies, and dressed like stereotypical Turkish men, sporting handlebar moustaches and curved goatees on their chins (they even sport those curved Arabic shoes and fezzes).

From the white warden who notes pettily that it costs $10,000 a day to feed 5,000 men to the prison preacher who could be free if Louisana's governor signed his pardon, this thoughtful, gripping film examines prison life from every imaginable angle except the unsurprising ones.

With a few exceptions - like Jane Russell and Chance de Widstedt (the last woman in Hawks's life) - the many colleagues, family members and acquaintances McCarthy interviewed describe Hawks as remote, pettily proprietary, monomaniacal and a pathological liar to boot.

He revenged himself on Abernethy, albeit pettily, by taking the most expensive room on offer at the Hotel Palomo, in Stillbrook Village, ordering up champagne and a rare hamburger, and tipping the waiter so well the man asked him if he hadn't made a mistake.

The overreaching emperor - who pettily asks to be called Magnagula ("big boots") rather than Caligula ("little boots") - is surrounded by a chorus of scantily and anachronistically clad followers who applaud his pseudo-philosophical harangues on ultimate freedom and act out various "entertainments" designed both to provoke thought and to titillate.