petty official

The taking of bribes by petty officials was more prevalent.

It is not enough to put petty officials on trial; their superiors must be in the dock as well.

He said society was rife with prying petty officials who were taking over our lives.

The petty official, the maker of laws alike can be made to believe the worst.

How many people have the wit to give a false name and address when confronted by one of these petty officials?

It was being difficult, like some petty official with a helpless citizen momentarily in his power.

Petty officials were allowed to impose upon them the most difficult drudgery without compensation.

My dad hated seeing petty officials wrong decent men.

Nothing infuriates me like the bland assurances of petty officials.

Nicci knew enough about such petty officials to know better than to make a scene.

There were always the small repressions, of course, the swaggering petty officials everywhere one looked.

He was the son of a Polish petty official (titular counsellor).

From the pettiest official to the biggest Minister, there's not one of them you can't put a price to."

Hippler grew up in Berlin as the son of a petty official.

And as he drives away, he's thinking not about the assertiveness of a petty official, but about the horizon.

Simon sighed, resentful that he had to get involved in a public squabble with this petty official.

Belisarius, not some obscure small merchant or petty official.

They were no longer poor, downtrodden peddlers or money-lenders with whom every petty official could do as he liked.

On his dignity, Kenamun was beginning to sound increasingly like the petty official made good which he was at heart.

She had given the man, but a petty official, a standing in the core of the Order-in the fellowship itself-that he could never attain.

They're just petty officials.

They tend to be, characterized by the phrase 'its more than my job's worth.' and may be termed petty officials.

I'll get handed from file clerks to petty officials who'll want explanations and authorizations and still come up with year-old information.

It was the problem that had been in his mind for years, as student, as petty official, and as Townman.

Watching them, I again noted the cold, almost disdainful persona assumed by many Cuban petty officials when dealing with the public.