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Перевод: petty
[прилагательное] мелкий; маловажный; небольшой; мелочный; узкий; ограниченный; незначительный
Тезаурус:
- Maggie had dealt with that as best she could, taking it quietly and never complaining about the minor injustices which a teacher can inflict - work returned because of untidiness, petty sarcasms, rigorous enforcement of minor school rules.
- You always were spoiled, and petty, if you did not get your own way.
- From the tranquility of the first decade of the twentieth century, the Victoria County History recorded: "Farmers and petty employers in Combsburgh would not engage the best labour, but preferred the inferior hands at low wages it was, therefore, scarcely surprising there were riots ".
- Democrats have always been concerned about the abuse of power, not petty larceny.
- She vents her spleen on the war, the blackout, the Zeppelins which made it imperative to shut the shutters at night; the price of groceries; the petty bourgeois; the landlords and the concierges.
- He knew of petty quarrels between men of different tribes which, inadequately composed, had grown; in one case thirteen men had been killed.
- In the evening they walked home to Stowey in the summer moonlight "through echoing grove, by fairy stream or waterfall" - Coleridge lamenting that Wordsworth was unwilling to believe in local superstitions, "and that there was a something corporeal, a matter-of-fact-ness , a clinging to the palpable, or often to the petty, in his poetry, in consequence".
- They respond with their age-old weapons - by trying to order their daughters-in-law about, taking away their jewellery, making their lives impossible with hundreds of petty rules, forcing sons and daughters who oppose them into arranged marriages, and, more than anything else, trying to get hold of every pay packet which is brought home.
- If a separate national question were raised, workers would be diverted from the pursuit of their own class interest to that of the petty bourgeoisie, spreading disunity between workers of different national origins.
- Historically policing has always involved controlling the petty (Ericson 1982: 7; Ignatieff 1978).
- The imprest would also be 3.77, so that the petty cash box contains 20 for the next day.
- Here, when Jacob meets his own brother, he meets him with all the courtly ceremony with which petty vassal princes used to greet their Pharaoh.
- All petty fears fell away from me, up there.
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