Pettily

That and the fact that long after any pettily deriding comments have been swallowed up into the obscurity of the aether, the larger work will remain. ❋ Readingthedark (2010)

Are we “pettily reactionary and positively fatal to life”? ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's always a long-winded, grandstanding, pettily partisan affair (show me a Council budget debate which isn't); this year's was no exception. ❋ Stephen Tall (2007)

He thought Christians were irrational, self-deceived, repressed, and arrogant; he took Christian morality to be pettily reactionary and positively fatal to life…3. ❋ Unknown (2009)

China reacted the way a nation reacts: somewhat pettily. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“When the reaction was mixed, it was kind of a disappointment, I was pettily hurt, and I was like, ‘God, I took so many incredible risks and things like that,’” Shyamalan said. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's really one that shouldn't be pettily dismissed, whether it completely works or not. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What is it that wouldn't matter if it were to be made whole again, in short, to be pettily identical to what's different? ❋ Greenintegerblog (2008)

“Me either,” I spat pettily, just before she slammed the door in my face. ❋ Jack Canfield (2008)

But his approach is to take the narrowest, pettily partisan approach simply in order to serve ministers' own interests and shut the legitimate debate down. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Class war on many levels, some of it institutional, some of it pettily personal. ❋ Rogers (2007)

Furthermore, I see that Tim has also discovered Dr Crippen: can I—rather pettily, but with a certain amount of childish satisfaction—point out that I was a couple of days ahead of him for once... ❋ Unknown (2005)