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Meanings of petit larceny in English
Catalan
rateria Larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
Synonyms
Examples for "petty"
Examples for "petty"
1
Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett said the group were playing petty politics.
2
Which was true, of course, and petty of me to bring up.
3
I don't have time to resolve these petty family squabbles right now.
4
Oppression, daily petty harassment and humiliation are the breeding ground for violence.
5
The provost, however, had never wasted his time with such petty artifice.
1
After all, that is nothing; petty larceny, six months at the most.
2
A shameless blend of petty larceny, mendacity, fleas, gourmandism, dirt and unequalled plausibility.
3
Why don't you forget your petty larceny troubles and start all over again?
4
Under the old, the jail was a finishing school of felony and petty larceny.
5
I'd suspect myself of petty larceny as soon as him.
Usage of petit larceny in English
1
A 40-year-old man serving four months in Rikers for petit larceny.
2
The crime of petit larceny, was thus merged in the greater one of burglary.
3
Remember, this man is dangerous, and he's wanted for murder, not petit larceny or crap-shooting.
4
Except that good of small value taken without violence shall be punished as petit larceny.
5
There was a dispute concerning some petit larceny-someslight discrepancy, we will imagine, since all this is pure romance, in the politician's accounts--
6
A pleasant-faced looking woman, named Ellen Whalen, was arraigned for petit larceny in having stolen an accordeon from the store of Ehrich's on Eighth Avenue.
7
If the Common People did it, it would be called Petit Larceny.