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Meaning of petty
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
petty
adj 1: inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a
lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate
functionary" [syn: {junior-grade}, {lower-ranking},
{lowly}, {petty(a)}, {secondary}, {subaltern}]
2: (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" [syn: {fiddling},
{footling}, {lilliputian}, {little}, {niggling}, {piddling},
{piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}]
3: contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments";
"disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" [syn: {petty},
{small-minded}]
n 1: larceny of property having a value less than some amount
(the amount varies by locale) [syn: {petit larceny}, {petty
larceny}, {petty}] [ant: {grand larceny}, {grand theft}]
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