How to use "petty" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "petty" in popular movie and book plots

  • She finds him in pain and bleeding internally after one of his victims caught him pulling a petty scam and punched him in the stomach.  - The Grifters (film)
  • At the beginning of the book he is a petty thief and hanger-on of a Chuzzlewit relative, Chevy Slyme.  - Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Detective Dick Tracy catches the urchin (who calls himself "Kid") in an act of petty theft.  - Dick Tracy (1990 film)
  • The supervisor agrees and collects the five friends, who are all either petty criminals or low-wage workers.  - My Lucky Stars
  • The novel is really about the growth of the village and the petty criminals, runaway servants and prostitutes who drift in and out.  - Showdown (Amado novel)
  • Buster Edwards is a petty criminal from the East End of 1960s London.  - Buster (film)
  • Devastated by the loss of his loving parents, Davey spent the next 20 years numbing his pain with alcohol and petty crime.  - Eight Crazy Nights
  • As time progresses, Jules becomes more involved in petty theft but always has hopes for a better life.  - Them (novel)
  • JD is known to cause petty troubles (such as leering at the girls and insulting the professors).  - Shiva (1990 film)
  • Within this simple framework, all of the obsessions, prejudices, fears and petty competitiveness of the protagonists are ruthlessly exposed.  - Abigail's Party
  • Thoreau meditates on the pleasures of escaping society and the petty things that society entails (gossip, fights, etc).  - Walden
  • The police investigation identified the woman Anne killed, out of anger at being found out for petty thievery.  - Cards on the Table
  • They recruit two petty crooks, Lackery Wood (Sidney James) and Shorty Fisher (Alfie Bass), to help them carry out the robbery.  - The Lavender Hill Mob
  • His own brother sets himself up as a petty dictator, taking what he wants without regard for the law.  - Viva Zapata!
  • It is James' lack of imagination and petty thievery that allow Talbot and Lestat to track him down.  - The Tale of the Body Thief
  • The Dead End Kids, led by Tommy Gordon (Billy Halop), are a petty gang of street urchins who are already well onto a path to a life of crime.  - Dead End (1937 film)

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