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Sentence count:256+11Posted:2016-11-10Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: basecontemptibledespicableimportantinferiorlowmeanminormiserablepunysmalltrivialunimportantwretchedAntonym: greatimportantSimilar words: prettypettishget the better ofpetcarpetcompeteimpetusperpetualMeaning: ['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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121. There's petty crime and crime on a grand scale, well organised.
122. I was too defiant to return to such an art school, so cramped, so bunged up with petty authority.
123. I gave a good class: there is nothing like teaching well for making one forget oneself and one's petty troubles.
124. Fakhru heard the remark, but said nothing; he preferred not to ruin a good business deal with petty religions differences.
125. We have demonstrated against petty apartheid because we are taking on the entire system of apartheid on all fronts.
126. In fact, only King Richard Petty, who shares with Earnhardt the record for championships, was ever so beloved.
127. The examples are purposely petty because tiny details of everyday life do preoccupy parents and consume-even distort-their judgment and self-regard.
128. So can a person caged in corporate life begin to assume huge anxieties about petty annoyances.
129. We now have to buy it from our petty cash.
130. It requires investment in good governance and tackling petty corruption.
131. Personally they are petty, self-indulgent and vengeful to a degree that suggests galloping megalomania.
132. Most burglaries are the work of petty thieves on the look our for an easy opportunity.
133. Mr Petty is hoping to gain market share by lowering prices on popular menu combinations under a new three-tiered pricing program.
134. Torture is also routine in criminal investigations, even for the most petty offense.
135. Her petty jealousy and deep ambivalence about Dickinson explode through her schoolmarm prose.
136. Whoever succeeds Kinnock, these differences are unlikely to get in anyone's way. Petty rivalries and jealousies will.
137. Tom Petty knew a good thing when he saw it.
138. Borrowing money from colleagues at work, petty cash, or from neighbours is a fast way of making yourself unpopular.
139. Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.
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140. It signified a disciplinary code of considerable imagination, a vast armoury of Chief Constable's powers, both petty and absolute.
141. She had done nothing to deserve Deana's petty jibes, and suddenly it was too much.
142. Before they met me, Steve and Paul were just petty criminals, didn't know nothing about nothing.
143. Many of them get into petty crime to support their habit.
144. If the government no longer differentiates between petty crime and murder, why should they?
145. How do three-strikers endure the thought of spending life in prison for a relatively petty crime?
146. Each petty sessions area has an allocated care centre to which cases may be transferred if the relevant criteria are met.
147. These measures increased the sometimes petty and patronizing intervention of officials in poor families.
148. I had better go now and pay my respects to the petty bourgeoisie.
149. He idly wondered if Joscelyn had returned to his old ways and was engaged in some petty smuggling.
150. His fees were petty and he didn't bleed his patients with leeches or use strange zodiac charts and stupid incantations.
More similar words: prettypettishget the better ofpetcarpetcompeteimpetusperpetualappetitecompetitorperpetuatepetulancecompetitionlettersettlepaletteghettobetterget togethersettingsettle forcigaretteforgettingvendettaget throughsettle downunfetteredsilhouettesettlementunsettling
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