petty
英 ['petɪ]
美['pɛti]
- adj. 琐碎的；小气的；小规模的
- n. (Petty)人名；(英、法)佩蒂
英英释意
- 1. inferior in rank or status;
- "the junior faculty"
- "a lowly corporal"
- "petty officialdom"
- "a subordinate functionary"
- 2. (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"
- 3. contemptibly narrow in outlook;
- "petty little comments"
- "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
