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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151. He has convictions there for a number of theft and similar petty crime offences since leaving St Patrick's.
152. One member shone out from this picture of lethargy and petty corruption.
153. The screenplay focuses on the incongruous and interdependent friendship between a dimwitted stud and a petty con man.
154. Now our elected representatives are learning firsthand how petty and obnoxious federal regulation can be.
155. He was wildly irreverent, too, and loved nothing better than defying rules and deflating self-important petty officials.
156. Hayley's crimes are petty and dishonourable, a contrast which reveals the falsity of the narrative assumptions Philip makes.
157. To this point his life was otherwise full of nothing but the petty disputes that entertained church people and bored everyone else.
158. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop
159. Petty theft and pickpocketing are becoming increasingly common in the city centre.
160. A second concern 15 to examine petty commerce in the context of various modes of production in capitalist social formations.
161. On the rare occasions when he was angry, Lowry could be spiteful and petty.
162. Marx himself might have viewed these small-scale marketers as resembling petty commodity producers more than petty capitalists.
163. First, her brother is self-evidently a petty fraudster better off behind bars.
164. Hated it for its bleak isolation and petty preoccupation with the work of fences and confinement.
165. Schools are often the target for petty acts of vandalism and urban schools in particular sometimes suffer from graffiti attacks.
166. But we kept pushing forward and we fought fair and we tried not to be petty.
167. Catesby, if he had stayed, might have put a restraining hand upon the petty malice of his comrades.
168. Their vision was of functionally integrated systems and ordered hierarchies, transcending the atomized, petty divisions of party politics.
169. There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident.
169. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
170. Reynolds became involved in petty crime at a very young age.
171. Apart from farmers, even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force.
172. I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons, like here lack of smiling.
173. Never give in, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. Winston Churchill
174. Petty crime was commonplace. Serious crime was the stuff of stairhead gossip.
175. Then he went back for a week and found he could no longer take the petty office politics.
176. The meeting spent too much time on petty issues, and didn't address the real problem.
177. After the rebellion of 1817 - 18 the judicial powers of headmen were limited to trying petty cases.
178. Athelstan watched the scene around him and tried to keep his mind free of Benedicta and the petty jealousies which nagged him.
179. There were so many petty rules and regulations that some companies stopped trying to export their products.
180. There had been a rash of petty thefts in the hotel and we were all warned to be vigilant.
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.