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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.