NOUN
- larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
How To Use petty larceny In A Sentence
- 'conveyancing' practice than he finds his time too valuable to be spent arguing in cases of assault or petty larceny. Hodge and His Masters
- Harley Rivera is my best friend, a connoisseur of fine music and petty larceny. A MEANS TO EVIL
- Why, this old fellow lives by petty larceny; he hasn't the dignity of a large thief: he is a filcher of caps and napkins from a washerwoman's basket; a robber of hen-roosts; a pocketer of tea-spoons! Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
- The foxglove, which is guilty of only sly, petty larceny, wears not the equivalent of the striped suit and the shaved head; nor does the mistletoe, which steals crude food from the tree, but still digests it itself, and is therefore only a dingy yellowish green. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
- Unfortunately, at 14, Michael was interested in smoking reefer, petty larceny, hookers, LSD and basketball.
- Harley Rivera is my best friend, a connoisseur of fine music and petty larceny. A MEANS TO EVIL
