Petty Definition

pĕtē
pettier, pettiest
adjective
pettier, pettiest
Relatively worthless or unimportant; trivial; insignificant.
Webster's New World
Small-scale; minor.
Webster's New World
Having or showing a tendency to make much of small matters.
Webster's New World
Small-minded; mean, narrow, ungenerous, etc.
Webster's New World
Relatively low in rank; subordinate.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Petty

Adjective

Base Form:
petty
Comparative:
pettier
Superlative:
pettiest

Origin of Petty

  • From Middle French petit, English since the late 14th century. The disparaging meaning develops during the 16th century.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English peti from Old French variant of petit petit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Petty Sentence Examples

  • All the petty supervising establishments are composed of convicts.

  • In Wischau itself, a petty German town, Rostov saw the Emperor again.

  • They acted also as police courts in the case of petty thefts, breaches of the peace and the like.

  • Behind the College is the Royal Hospital School, where woo boys, sons of petty officers and seamen, are boarded.

  • He had annihilated the petty kings of the South, had crushed the aristocracy, enforced the acceptance of Christianity throughout the kingdom, asserted his suzerainty in the Orkney Islands, had humbled the king of Sweden and married his daughter in his despite, and had conducted a successful raid on Denmark.

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