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petty    音标拼音: [p'ɛti]
a. 琐碎的,小规模的,小气的

琐碎的,小规模的,小气的

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

Petty \Pet"ty\ (p[e^]t"t[y^]), a. [Compar. {Pettier}
(p[e^]t"t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Pettiest}.] [OE. petit, F.
petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E. piece. Cf.
{Petit}.]
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; unimportant; also,
inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; petty complaints; a
petty prince. --Denham.
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Like a petty god
I walked about, admired of all. --Milton.
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{Petty averages}. See under {Average}.

{Petty cash}, money expended or received in small items or
amounts.

{Petty officer}, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc.,
corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.
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Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty
treason, See {Petit}.
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Syn: Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling;
trivial; unimportant; frivolous.
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176 Moby Thesaurus words for "petty":
Mickey Mouse, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, authoritarian,
base, beggarly, bickering, bigot, bigoted, borne, captious, casual,
caviling, cheap, cheesy, choplogic, close, closed, constricted,
contemptible, cramped, creedbound, crummy, cursory, deaf,
deaf to reason, debased, deficient, degraded, depraved, depthless,
despicable, dinky, dirty, disgusting, equivocatory, evasive,
execrable, fanatical, few, flagrant, footling, foul, fulsome,
grave, gross, grudging, hairsplitting, hedging, heinous, hidebound,
illiberal, imperfect, impertinent, inadequate, incompetent,
inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential,
inferior, insignificant, insufficient, insular, irrelevant,
jerkwater, light, little, little-minded, logic-chopping, low,
low-down, lumpen, maladroit, mangy, meager, mean, mean-minded,
mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, mingy, miniature, minor,
miserable, miserly, monstrous, narrow, narrow-hearted,
narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted,
nefarious, negligible, niggardly, niggling, nit-picking,
no great shakes, not comparable, not in it, nugatory, obnoxious,
odious, of no account, one-horse, out of it, paltering, paltry,
parochial, parsimonious, peanut, peddling, pettifogging, picayune,
picayunish, piddling, piffling, pimping, poky, poor, provincial,
punk, puny, purblind, pussyfooting, quibbling, rank, reptilian,
scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shallow, shoddy,
shoestring, short, shortsighted, shuffling, skin-deep, slight,
small, small-beer, small-minded, small-time, squalid, stingy,
straitlaced, stuffy, superficial, tight, tight-fisted, tinhorn,
tiny, trichoschistic, trifling, trinal, trivial, two-bit,
two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, uncatholic, uncharitable,
unchivalrous, unconsidered, ungenerous, unimportant, unliberal,
unmentionable, unskillful, vile, wretched


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