Larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
(Informal) small and of little importance.
Inferior in rank or status.
Contemptibly narrow in outlook.
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.
6 We'll make sure that these petty impediments are resolved within the month.
7 Again, avoid the petty squabbles because you're looking to embrace new vistas.
8 The sternness of the petty officers could not halt the spreading feeling.
9 Your petty Alliance will no longer be of any concern to us.
10 More and more it has resulted in petty tactics for vote catching.
11 Yet this petty brawl was in fact an irreparable and farreaching disaster.
12 It creates the petty thief, and puts him in a bamboo cage.
13 Drink your wine, de Glanville, and put these petty differences behind you.
14 Do so; and you will save yourself a world of petty troubles.
15 After all, that is nothing; petty larceny, six months at the most.
16 He spoiled his chance when he meddled in the petty Italian politics.
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