Words and phrases that have a meaning related to petty: (209 results)
Often used in the same context:
trivial, childish, penny ante, crass, trifling, selfish, puerile, callous, inconsequential, thoughtless, egotistical, meanspirited, foolishness, venal, dishonorable, uncouth, vindictive, frivolous, mindless, bureaucratic, spiteful, thuggish, lumpen, plebeian, unimportant, insignificant, petulant, silly, mundane, egocentric, thieving, shameless, shiftless, heartless, egoistical, thickheaded, contemptible, corrupt, despicable, uncivilized, pompous, loutish, unsavory, stupid, greedy, irredeemable, inconsiderate, pathetic, unprincipled, unseemly, piddling, uncivil, cynical, vainglorious, unneighborly, aimless, diversionary, unbecoming, sordid, wanton, arrogant, vexatious, victimless, menial, sophomoric, heedless, blatant, parochial, highhanded, pedantic, infantile, unthoughtful, unbefitting, feckless, disrespectable, grubby, uncompassionate, drivelling, boorish, ignoble, arrant, barefaced, unstatesmanlike, smalltime, foolish, knuckleheaded, overzealousness, antisocial, uneducated, banal, senseless, vilest, obnoxious, unedifying, demagogic, undignified, disgraceful, venial, drunken, scummy, brusk, tawdriest, simple, cheap, modern, jefferson, small, annoyances, distractions, foreign, grand, queer, ancient, bourgeois, com, denizens, ex, natural, orthodox, practise, vexations, welsh, pettiest, picayune, mahratta, border, bugis, pettifogging, barbarian, deccan, factional, mandingo, rajput, abyssinian, despotic, detestable, feudatory, incapable, indicted, internecine, intertribal
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., annoyed, bicker, bickering, bo's'n, bo'sun, boatswain, bos'n, bosun, brabble, bureaucratically, cangue, carper, carping, caviler, caviller, censorious, death squad, detraction, discouragement, faultfinding, fuss, generous, grudging, harassed, harried, indiscretion, master-at-arms, niggardly, niggle, niggler, peccadillo, pestered, pettifog, pettifogger, pettifoggery, pettily, pettiness, petty criticism, punctilio, quibble, quibbler, scrimy, slightness, spat, squabble, tiff, triviality, untouched, vexed
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Also try:fiddling, footling, inferior, junior, junior-grade, lilliputian, little, lower, lower-ranking, lowly, narrow, narrow-minded, niggling, piffling, secondary, small-minded, subaltern, subordinate
— Nouns for petty: bourgeoisie, officer, officers, states, theft, bourgeois, cash, traders, jealousies, crime, larceny, more...
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