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  • r  in a petty way

  • Books such as Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion often read like pure taunting, as when Hitchens pettily and pointedly types God as .
  • As a Moravia heroine, she is certain to be vapid, gross, pettily cruel and, when she stops to think about it, unhappy.
  • Rather pettily, Giscard had planned to ignore Chirac, but the cunning mayor wrote Brezhnev asking him to stop by.
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  • M Night Shyamalan in CanMag
    When the reaction was mixed, 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.

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