What is "pettily"

Usage examples of "pettily".

Rather pettily, he now thought, he had resented the fact that he never seemed to see his only daughter unless she wanted something.

As the Reverend Ahnsworth Cody waited for the others to shuffle out of the economy class cabin of flight 212, Miami International to New Orleans, he thought, somewhat pettily, that there was more room in most caskets than there was in the seats in which he and Margaret had ridden from Miami.

I was also shocked by their selfishness, for while they fought pettily amongst themselves over how they would change their lands for the better, a seemingly important question about past and future, they completely ignored the sufferings of other humanoids, to whom their way of living no doubt seemed like a paradise.

The song sparrows sang and sang, as if with joyous knowledge of immortality, and contempt for those who could so pettily concern themselves with death.

The Russians struggled pettily among themselves, expending the last energies of a once-glorious nation in puerile bickerings.

He was editor, and he was completely within his rights to reject the story, and I was being pettily temperamental to be angry about it.

But there was nothing of the kind: all he saw were some pettily occupied office faces, then some other people, and none of them had any need of him: he could have gone four ways at once.

The Russias struggled pettily among themselves, expending the last energies of a once-proud nation in puerile bickerings.

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