All 3 Uses of
petty
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Can't you rise above those petty materialistic definitions?†
Chpt 3.4 *
- What do you think you're saying?" he asked in a tone of petty anger, which sounded almost benevolent by bringing them back into the realm of the normal, into the near-wholesomeness of nothing worse than a family quarrel.†
Chpt 3.4
- "We have discarded all our petty differences," Wesley Mouch was now saying into the microphone, "all partisan opinions, all personal interests and selfish views-in order to serve under the selfless leadership of John Galt!"†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(petty as in: a petty crime) of less importance -- at times implying insignificance