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Meaning of petty

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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