Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, narrow, narrow-minded, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, small-minded, trivial, unimportant

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