adjective (usually disapproving)
1 [usuallybeforenoun] small and unimportant:
petty squabbles / restrictions * petty crime / theft (= that is not very serious) * a petty criminal / thief * a petty bureaucrat / official (= who does not have much power or authority)
2 concerned with small and unimportant matters, especially when this is unkind to other people:
How could you be so petty?
pettiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for petty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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