About The Word Petty
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Petty
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What's The Definition Of Petty?
[adj] contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
[adj] (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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Petty: fiddling | footling | lilliputian | little | Mickey Mouse | narrow | narrow-minded | niggling | picayune | piddling | piffling | small-minded | trivial | unimportant Related Terms | Find terms related to Petty: abject | abominable | arrant | atrocious | authoritarian | base | beggarly | bickering | bigot | bigoted | borne | captious | casual | caviling | cheap | cheesy | choplogic | close | closed | constricted | contemptible | cramped | creedbound | crummy | cursory | deaf | deaf to reason | debased | deficient | degraded | depraved | depthless | despicable | dinky | dirty | disgusting | equivocatory | evasive | execrable | fanatical | few | flagrant | footling | foul | fulsome | grave | gross | grudging | hairsplitting | hedging | heinous | hidebound | illiberal | imperfect | impertinent | inadequate | incompetent | inconsequent | inconsequential | inconsiderable | inessential | inferior | insignificant | insufficient | insular | irrelevant | jerkwater | light | little | little-minded | logic-chopping | low | low-down | lumpen | maladroit | mangy | meager | mean | mean-minded | mean-spirited | measly | mediocre | Mickey Mouse | mingy | miniature | minor | miserable | miserly | monstrous | narrow | narrow-hearted | narrow-minded | narrow-souled | narrow-spirited | nearsighted | nefarious | negligible | niggardly | niggling | nit-picking | no great shakes | not comparable | not in it | nugatory | obnoxious | odious | of no account | one-horse | out of it | paltering | paltry | parochial | parsimonious | peanut | peddling | pettifogging | picayune | picayunish | piddling | piffling | pimping | poky | poor | provincial | punk | puny | purblind | pussyfooting | quibbling | rank | reptilian | scabby | scrubby | scruffy | scummy | scurvy | shabby | shallow | shoddy | shoestring | short | shortsighted | shuffling | skin-deep | slight | small | small-beer | small-minded | small-time | squalid | stingy | straitlaced | stuffy | superficial | tight | tight-fisted | tinhorn | tiny | trichoschistic | trifling | trinal | trivial | two-bit | two-by-four | twopenny-halfpenny | uncatholic | uncharitable | unchivalrous | unconsidered | ungenerous | unimportant | unliberal | unmentionable | unskillful | vile | wretched See Also | Petty In Webster's Dictionary \Pet"ty\, a. [Compar. {Pettier}; superl. {Pettiest}.] [OE.
petit, F. petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E.
piece. Cf. {Petit}.]
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior;
subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. --Denham.
Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all.
--Milton.
{Petty averages}. See under {Average}.
{Petty cash}, money expended or received in small items or
amounts.
{Petty officer}, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc.,
corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.
Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty
treason, See {Petit}.
Syn: Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling;
trivial; unimportant; frivolous.
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