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petty

• (s) inferior in rank or status
  • the junior faculty
  • a lowly corporal
  • petty officialdom
  • a subordinate functionary
  junior-grade, lower-ranking, subaltern, lowly, secondary,
• (s) (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
  fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial, lilliputian, little,
• (s) contemptibly narrow in outlook
  • petty little comments
  • disgusted with their small-minded pettiness
  small-minded,

Nouns

• (n) larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) petit larceny, petty larceny,

Synonyms

junior-grade lower-ranking subaltern lowly secondary petit larceny petty larceny fiddling footling niggling picayune piddling piffling trivial lilliputian little small-minded

Antonyms

grand larceny grand theft

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