petty造句31. How could you be so petty?
32. He felt fettered by petty rules and regulations.
33. My life is hedged around with petty regulations.
34. There's been an increase in minor offences, such as traffic violations and petty theft.
35. I didn't want to get caught up in endless petty arguments.
36. A leaking roof is just one of life's petty annoyances!
37. The article paints them as a bunch of petty criminals.
38. The book traced his steady progress from petty theft to serious crime.
39. Murder, petty theft and tax evasion, for instance, all have different motives and consequences.
40. Petty restrictions easily raised/aroused the ire of such a creative artist.
41. He had to overrule his petty officials to accept him.
42. He quickly discovered the petty jealousies and gossip of village life.
43. The rise in unemployment is paralleled by an increase in petty crime.
44. Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.
45. The decision not to allow disabled athletes to take part was seen as petty and bigoted.
46. She felt hemmed in by all their petty rules and regulations.
47. The petty quarrels were a sad commentary on the state of the government.
48. His administration was plagued by one petty scandal after another, cumulatively very damaging.
49. She has become enmeshed in a tangle of drugs and petty crime.
50. The paymasters of these petty crooks are the big crime syndicates.
51. The writer often obfuscates the real issues with petty details.
52. Don't be so petty!
53. To an outsider, the issues that we fight about would seem almost laughably petty.
54. It was petty of her not to accept the apology.
55. No petty official was going to stop Philip from getting into the enclosure. He would just snap his fingers at them.
56. Petty crime is having a deleterious effect on community life.
57. A lot of drug addicts get into petty crime to support their habit.
58. He made his children's lives a misery with all his petty rules.
59. The threat of jail failed to deter him from petty crime.
60. She had been pilfering from the petty cash for months.