Petty

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[adj] contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
[adj] (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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"

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Synonyms

fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, narrow, narrow-minded, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, small-minded, trivial, unimportant

Related Terms

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 rea