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petty
insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable

a petty fault.

little, small, secondary in rank or importance

petty officer, petty cash.

narrow-minded, small-minded
{a} small, little, trifling, inconsiderable, low
Petty is used of people or actions that are less important, serious, or great than others. petty crime, such as handbag-snatching and minor break-ins. adj. Petty Richard Petty Sir William Lansdowne Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice 5th marquess of
inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince
(informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
{s} small, little; unimportant, insignificant; trivial
disapproval You can use petty to describe things such as problems, rules, or arguments which you think are unimportant or relate to unimportant things. He was miserable all the time and rows would start over petty things. endless rules and petty regulations
Little, trifling, or inconsiderable, as a petty fault
disapproval If you describe someone's behaviour as petty, you mean that they care too much about small, unimportant things and perhaps that they are unnecessarily unkind. I think that attitude is a bit petty. + pettiness pet·ti·ness Never had she met such spite and pettiness
contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness
contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
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