petty in the PONS Dictionary

petty Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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He enlists a petty thief to enter the cave and retrieve it, whose attempt fails.
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Below the warrant officers came the petty officers.
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In order to advance to the rate of petty officer third class, a seaman would have to submit a request every 6 months.
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It also abolished the crime of petty treason.
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The combat teams are composed of ten men: petty officers and seamens and a commanding petty officer.
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It has few shops except for a small number of "potti kadais" (petty shops).
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He felt it important that the authority of petty officers should be boosted, and he did this by improving their quarters.
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The empire dissolved into petty polities, fighting among each other for war captives to sell into slavery.
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This is supplemented by petty trading by the womenfolk.
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Petty officials were also satisfied of with the change.
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