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List of meaning for petty

small and insignificant

petit larceny, petty larceny, petty(adj)

larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)

junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subaltern(adj)

inferior in rank or status

"the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"

fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial(adj)

(informal) 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"; "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"

petty, small-minded(adj)

contemptibly narrow in outlook

"petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"

not broad or open in views or opinions

a petty little town that was not ethnically diverse and very happy about the situation

so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention

obsessed over even petty problems

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