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.
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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181. These items are usually paid for out of the petty cash.
182. This is not a buck here or a buck there in the petty cash till.
183. The vast majority were, for example, petty thefts, acts of vandalism, and minor assaults.
184. If you work in retailing, you may be asked to look after the petty cash.
185. It may seem petty to distinguish between the plural and singular form, and therefore unnecessary to include both in the index.
186. Mine hunting director petty officer Simmo Simmons calls up the image on to his table screen.
187. I was just making small talk and some of it was the most petty talk that I've ever heard!
188. Why in such wretched circumstances, faced by such great dangers, did they still prosecute these petty feuds?
189. Not that his pursuers would be distracted from finding him by such petty secrecy.
190. I hate the crabbed and the mean and the petty.
191. A dominant theme in these portrayals is criminality in East End communities: small-time crooks, petty crime and drinking clubs.
192. A better approach is to continue to be friendly and businesslike, while totally ignoring their petty comments.
193. He knew nothing about drill, but learned the necessary movements from books and soon gained promotion to chief petty officer.
194. In the strict hierarchy of the Catalan countryside these peasant farmer families almost ranked as a petty nobility.
195. The depositions touch on rumors of illegal drug use, extramarital affairs and petty squabbling.
196. They are convicted of physical harm or damage infrequently and they are in general petty and trivial offenders.
197. The petty cashier must always account for a certain fixed sum of money. 2.
198. That other sailor was later identified as Jonathan Rushin, a 23-year-old petty officer third class.
199. Amongst them were pickpockets, alcoholics, pimps(Sentencedict.com ), drug peddlers and other petty criminals.
200. Chief Petty Officer John Strange was badly injured during a missile attack.
201. Completion and interpretation of petty cash transactions. 3 Materials and Stationery Use and control; methods of economy.
202. In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient.
203. So, you see, even these minor distinctions felt like petty theft.
204. Johnson had two prior convictions for residential burglaries and a history of petty crimes.
205. In contrast, petty theft has a very low rate of reporting to the police, and a low detection rate.
206. This bitter struggle was personified by the Soong family, for years rent by political differences and petty jealousies.
207. Petty - bourgeois fanaticism can be good for you.
208. He was also petty, unreasonably querulous, and mean.
209. Making Disbursements from the Petty Cash Fund.
210. Isn't it loathsome! Isn't it petty!
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.