“I, however, soon got out of that disgraceful and ignorant form, passed with rapidity and eclat the under and upper petty, and entered into the upper first.”

“The pettiness of insignificant details shouldn't overshadow the main purpose of this project.”

“After years of working in a toxic environment, she had grown tired of the constant pettiness among her colleagues, as they consistently wasted time arguing over trivial matters instead of focusing on the team's objectives.”

“Her constant petty comments and acts of pettiness towards her co-workers revealed her underlying vindictive nature.”

“What envyings, spites, meannesses and miserable pettinesses arise from this greed of money!”

“Mademoiselle Cormon had ended, as it was natural she should end, in contemplating herself only in the infinite pettinesses of her life.”