Dizionario Ceco - Inglese

český jazyk - English

drobný in inglese:

1. petty


He went to jail for some petty crime.
I was involved in a petty argument.
I'm sick and tired of all the petty squabbling among politicians.
It's just petty reasons.
I'm not interested in all the petty details.
Lothal was awash with petty politics.
The departmental heads, lost in petty argument, could not reach a cohesive decision.
In this harsh, petty world where money does the talking, his way of life is like a breath of fresh air.
Petty details/ Petty crime/ Petty cash/ You can be so petty sometimes!
People are so petty.
Slovenia must stop behaving in a petty manner, so that a solution may quickly be found.
petty offence, thief
a petty person
she thought readers were being petty in writing to complain about blocked paths
Initially this gave rise to gossip among petty people, and it gradually provoked criticism from members of our family.

Inglese parola "drobný"(petty) si verifica in set:

300 most important Czech adjectives 201 - 225

2. tiny


Since he can read such tiny print, he is far from being near-sighted.
tiny spider
She appeared on the cover of magazines holding a tiny ampule of blood.
Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup.
Parker Brothers ran out of thimbles and tiny cannons, amounting to a multimillion-dollar loss.
Fiber-optic cables are made up of tiny glass fibers which are as thin as human hairs.
Yesterday, I found a tiny piece of land for sale in a quiet residential area and I immediately decided to buy it.
Everybody always knows when the politicians do something wrong and how they should do it better, but only a tiny fraction of the population is ready to commit themselves to politics.
Unless you have really tiny veins, you shouldn't have any trouble.
It was a little dog, wasn't it?" "Little? It was tiny!
That tiny meal wasn’t enough for me. I’m still hungry.
In that moment I knew I never wanted to see a dead body, not even of a tiny animal.
Her tiny attic room had poor ventilation and in summer it became unbearably stuffy.
The latter one is particularly interesting as it allows to create an extremely tiny tests
She was a tiny girl, but she really held her own on the baritone sax. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but imagine the thing wrapping itself around her and devouring her like a boa constrictor.