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Petty Definition And Meaning
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.

Petty Definition And Meaning

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"

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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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