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Definition of petty : Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.

Synonyms:

junior, narrow, subordinate, peanut, trifling, measly, slight, tiny, provincial, little, nominal, inconsiderable, midget, niggard, illiberal, fractious, insignificant, lowly, lilliputian, petit larceny, footling, niggling, under, junior-grade, cheap, moody, niggardly, superficial, pinching, de minimis, picayune, bad-tempered, over, short, sensitive, piffling, temperamental, low, lesser, small-minded, costive, minute, important, sectarian, piddling, Mickey Mouse, diminutive, close, inconsequential, minor-league, short-tempered, paltry, hot-tempered, minor, pimping, petite, petty larceny, flyspeck, trivial, narrow-minded, lower-ranking, penurious, unimportant, no-account, give, secondary, wide, bantam, smalltime, limited, frivolous, chicken, minuscule, fiddling, piddly, nugatory, small, negligible, close-fisted, tightfisted, subaltern, inferior, lower

bitchy, touchy, acerbic, bearish, spiteful, cranky, huffy, cantankerous, prickly, churlish, snappish, bellicose, cross, bitter, acid, irascible, crusty, peevish, petulant, sour, irritable, caustic, surly, acrimonious, crabbed, tart

puny, poor, weak, undersized

insular, close-minded, parochial

frugal, austere, narrow-fisted, miserly, cheeseparing, ascetic, penny-pinching, mean, Spartan, stingy, thrifty, tight, closefisted, meager, hard-fisted, abstemious, parsimonious

meaningless, of no consequence/of little consequence, unconsidered, mere, irrelevant

Usage examples:

• At my Lord's at night comes Dr. Petty to me, to tell me that Barlow had come to town, and other things, which put me into a despair, and I went to bed very sad. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
• Well, said Mrs. Petty, I can't waste time. - "The Burning Spear", John Galsworthy.
• Thou knowest all my life, Each petty sin, Nothing is hid from thee Without, within. - "Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul", Various.