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n. a minor, less serious crime
Usage examples of "petty crime".
He'd finally realized, very nearly too late, that his life of petty crime hurt a lot more people than just the rich, obnoxious tourists he'd made a living ripping off.
I gave up fifteen years to booze, dope, petty crime, and insanity.
Such men realised that petty crime was a waste of time, and that real success could only come through corrupting police officers and politicians and acquiring a ‘.
Such men realised that petty crime was a waste of time, and that real success could only come through corrupting police officers and politicians and acquiring a ‘power base’.
To that end, they patrolled regularly at all hours, organized community sales and cleaning parties and kept vandalism and petty crime under control.
The most notorious was undoubtedly Al Capone, nicknamed `Scarface', who graduated from petty crime to controlling all the rackets in Chicago, with most of the local police and politicians on his payroll.
Another diagnosed psychotic and possible schizophrenic, he had an extremely high IQ, as well as a history of drug-abuse and petty crime.
Yet I had nothing to expect in the city except starvation or a life of petty crime.
He is certainly the most uniquely qualified of modern writers to depict American low life, having been arrested thirty-five times for petty crime when he was young, served various jail sentences for burglary, and conquered both drink and drug addiction before turning to writing, at which he has proved spectacularly successful.
Confidence man to bathroom-cleaning man wasn't quite the transition Skeeter had hoped for, when he'd decided to give up his life of petty crime.
At present his man was unemployed, putatively living off savings, likelier off odd jobs and petty crime.
We are on a serious mission tonight and want no petty crime to jeopardize our position.