All 4 Uses of
petty
in
Crime and Punishment
- This house was let out in tiny tenements and was inhabited by working people of all kinds—tailors, locksmiths, cooks, Germans of sorts, girls picking up a living as best they could, petty clerks, etc. There was a continual coming and going through the two gates and in the two courtyards of the house.†
Chpt 1.1
- Phew, how utterly petty it all is!†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Oh, what had he to do now with his own baseness, with all these petty vanities, officers, German women, debts, police-offices?†
Chpt 2.1
- But there was nothing of the sort: he saw only the faces of clerks absorbed in petty details, then other people, no one seemed to have any concern with him.†
Chpt 4.5
Definition:
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(petty as in: a petty crime) of less importance -- at times implying insignificance