Some peasants protest petty corruption or at the arrogance of village officials.

This has apparently reduced petty corruption and meter manipulation.

The Times's series detailed petty corruption in which abuses of the public purse and trust abound.

Objectively speaking petty corruption is the problem in Russia.

Mr. Deng no longer seems to rise above the petty corruption and influence-peddling that people see all around them.

At the same time, he said, the town government has neglected basic things like cleaning up petty corruption, prostitution, drug trafficking and public safety.

"Nobody in public life has really been linking this problem of petty corruption with security."

The petty corruption of the Reagan years did further harm.

Hers was a petty corruption, and while people talked about it, they usually spoke quietly.