Petty

Word PETTY
Character 5
Hyphenation pet ty
Pronunciations /ˈpɛti/

Definitions and meanings of "Petty"

What do we mean by petty?

Of small importance; trivial: synonym: trivial. adjective

Narrow-minded or ungenerous, especially in trifling matters. adjective

Of lesser importance or rank; subordinate. adjective

Small; little; trifling; trivial; inconsiderable or insignificant; of little account: as, petty payments; a petty quarrel.

Of minor importance or gravity; not heinous or serious: as, petty trespass; a petty crime.

Inferior as regards rank, power, capacity, possessions, etc.; not of great importance, standing, or rank: as, a petty prince; a petty proprietor.

A junior scholar in a grammar-school; a little child attending school. noun

Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate adjective

See under Average. adjective

Money expended or received in small items or amounts. adjective

A subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army. adjective

Little, small, secondary in rank or importance. adjective

Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable. adjective

Narrow-minded, small-minded. adjective

Inferior in rank or status adjective

(informal) small and of little importance adjective

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

Contemptibly narrow in outlook adjective

(usually in the plural) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.

A class or school for young schoolboys.

An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

1. making things, events, or actions normal people dismiss as trivial or insignificant into excuses to be upset, uncooperative, childish, or stubborn. 2. A person who habitually overreacts. 3. A person who is purposefully childish with the intent of illiciting a reaction (sometimes funny). 4. An immature over reaction in retaliation of an undesired outcome. Urban Dictionary

Me Urban Dictionary

Someone who does something in an attempt to hurt another person but really just makes themself look like a fucking idiot Urban Dictionary

When someone takes a small subject and blows it out of proportion. At times, making something otherwise insignificant into something bigger to suit their own agenda. Urban Dictionary

Someone who dose things on purpose to get a reaction out of someone Urban Dictionary

Someone that is so insignificant as to be almost unworthy of notice, even despicable. Marked by narrowness of mind, ideas, or views. Deliberately nasty for a foolish or trivial reason. Urban Dictionary

Another word for annoying or pathetic Urban Dictionary

Makes everything a bigger deal than what it really is, starts drama Urban Dictionary

A word that used to describe someone who overreacts to something trivial that offends them, but is now used by illiterates to describe anyone who trolls someone else for any reason. Urban Dictionary

Somone who thinks they are better than everyone else but in reality they are just fake and a whore. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Petty

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The word "petty" in example sentences

Which of us, in fact, has the force of character to be superior to petty vanity, to _petty fine feelings_, sympathy and self-reproach? ... ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)

As Democratic presidential frontrunners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton got personal in last night's debate, John Edwards said he tried to stay away from what he called petty bickering. ❋ Unknown (2008)

HENRY: The clarification came after Maliki lashed out at what he called petty politics from the American administration. ❋ Unknown (2007)

SHEINDLIN: Yes oh, yes, child is bitten by a dog, the child -- sometimes children get involved in -- what I call petty crime vandalism, and the neighbor will sue the parents to replace the property that the children destroyed. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Baqwa said every individual was capable of casting aside what he called petty differences and to help rid the country of lawlessness and violence. ❋ Unknown (1996)

I mean if we are going to engage in petty name calling at least get your facts right. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I agree that the crashers should have been charged had they been caught in fraganti but it would be very petty from the service to charge them now after no harm was done. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm most likely never going to stop feeling this way, and telling me it's petty is not exactly helping. ❋ Zombietron (2009)

Police are security services and should not engage in petty politicking and certainly shouldn't be so easily offended. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They told me it was petty to complain - petty to feel upset about these "encounters". ❋ Zombietron (2009)

Though they hold higher office, some of them engage in petty, obstructionist behaviors that are reminiscent of a high school student instead of intelligent and educated men and women. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Siegel, who started out in petty crimes and auto thefts, graduated to being a professional killer and bootlegger. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Only a disgusting selfish inhuman being with total lack of compassion or sense of right and wrong would use the Haiti earthquake in petty political attacks against President Obama ❋ Unknown (2010)

The UK risks a wave of layabouts indulging in petty grievances against imagined slights, in what police warn could become a "Summer of George". ❋ Unknown (2009)

He started in petty crime at the age of 13, and moved on to labor racketeering for Al Capone in 1929. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He no longer bought books, and he economized in petty ways and sought to delay the inevitable end; though he did not know how to economize, and brought the end nearer by a week when he gave his sister Marian five dollars for a dress. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Is it wrong or disrespectful to use another faith in petty family intrigues? ❋ Unknown (2009)

1. Susie is upset the teacher didn't call on her after answering three times in a row. She's petty. 2. I really don't feel like going over Xenobia's house today, you know shes mad petty. 3. She told me if I [change the game] I might have a chance so I turned the channel from Knicks to the [PGA tour]. 4. "Oooooooh so you want to stay out all night?" *changes locks [on front] door* ❋ Ch1ef (2016)

[I am] petty ❋ Pettyassbitch (2017)

[McKinley] [keeps] [subtweeting] me, she's so damn petty ❋ Pettygal1234 (2017)

Daisy: Man, that girl is so petty. She can really make a mountain out of a mole hill. Informed Annie: [Oh Jesus], the [AFA] is [boycotting] Ford just because they posted ads in gay magazines. How petty! ❋ Little Lauren (2005)

[lucy] is so petty ❋ Notgnirrak (2016)

[Florence] is so petty she took home all the toilet paper, even the one already on the [dispenser], because she was mad that she had no friends, no life, and [no clue]. ❋ Regina G. (2007)

There's a girl that you don't like and you go sit next to her to [deliberately] [annoy] her and to get a reaction which is [being petty] ❋ 3mzy.444555 (2017)

"your being so [jen] [rn]." (jen=petty) ❋ 405brandy (2016)

Friend: That dude [Joe's] so petty. He said [I laugh] like a [hyena]. Me: That's not petty. That's just making fun at your expense, dummy. ❋ Dumb Words Disliker (2017)

[katie] [rolison] is a petty [little bitch]. ❋ Swagmoney12345 (2017)

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