Petty
Both words in one sentence
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In Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Robotnik commits petty crimes in his spare time when he's not trying to take over Mobius.
Source: Evil Is Petty -
Or not so petty: one policeman mentions that there were crooks who collected sums to buy a car (a big deal in the USSR) by repeatedly spending the magical coin and collecting spare change.
- The struggle of a common cause was intended by the Church to burn away the petty resentments between the Christian lords of Europe, and the land seized was to allow estates for spare sons.
Source: Genghis Gambit
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