Synonym: base, contemptible, despicable, important, inferior, low, mean, minor, miserable, puny, small, trivial, unimportant, wretched. Antonym: great, important. Similar words: pretty, pettish, get the better of, pet, carpet, compete, impetus, perpetual. Meaning: ['petɪ] n. larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale). adj. 1. inferior in rank or status 2. (informal) small and of little importance 3. contemptibly narrow in outlook.
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91. Some are drawn into a life of crime: petty thieving, drugs trafficking etc.
92. The trial court found that her demands were not petty or unreasonable, since they involved practices she felt were racially discriminatory.
93. Economic deprivation has increased both petty and violent crimes, turning some cities into murder capitals.
94. You can earn advancement to leading cook and then to petty officer cook or caterer.
95. His leading characters are seen to be, in some sense, petty and peripheral: but peripheral to what?
96. He prospered in this country, plying a uniquely leisure-class trade, and then expressed petty contempt for his hosts.
97. Over the years several have been the victim of petty criminals.
98. The crimes were petty stuff, small-time marijuana, heroin started coming in.
99. My background is petty theft and liquor store holdups and the usual drug junk.
100. The meetings are not meant to serve as glorified works councils, hammering out grand agreements on petty feuds.
101. Democrats have always been concerned about the abuse of power, not petty larceny.
102. On the basis of that petty insult, Pick stormed out of the negotiations, never to return.
103. In the dry parlance of a police report, it was nothing more than a petty theft.
104. A petty officer, his wife and three incredibly well-behaved children were first.
105. The imprest would also be £3.77, so that the petty cash box contains £20 for the next day.
106. And the former petty crook had no previous record for violence.
107. They patrolled the streets and aimed to prevent, by their presence, the committing of petty offences or minor disorder.
108. And how petty those ambitions were, really, besides my family's happiness.
109. This may sound like petty whimpering, but intrusions upon the exercise of lawful freedom is no small matter.
109. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
110. In all, four sailors were punished and three petty officers, including Wait, were removed from the Salt Lake City.
111. What I normally do is vandalism, poaching, driving without insurance, petty opportunist larceny.
112. Many of them were local tradesmen who supplemented their living by acting as petty rural landlords.
113. Individual petty conflicts therefore easily accumulate to add to the differences already apparent between locals and newcomers in terms of background and life-styles.
114. As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes, borstals and finally prison.
115. An alliance between workers, peasants and petty bourgeoisie necessitates a bureaucratic authoritarian regime. 2.
116. Modern corporate businesses are few and licences for small-scale repair shops and petty street traders provide a major share of city revenue.
117. The new courts were designed to relieve police courts of petty offences.
118. In other words, it seemed that as petty commodity traders these marketwomen were often unable even to reproduce their present conditions.
119. Burglaries may sound petty, but there are a lot of formerly rural areas that are being developed.
120. I also found it hard to deal with the petty bourgeois outlook of all but a few of the girls at that private school.
More similar words: pretty, pettish, get the better of, pet, carpet, compete, impetus, perpetual, appetite, competitor, perpetuate, petulance, competition, letter, settle, palette, ghetto, better, get together, setting, settle for, cigarette, forgetting, vendetta, get through, settle down, unfettered, silhouette, settlement, unsettling.