petty
adj 1: inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly
corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate
functionary" [syn: {junior-grade}, {inferior}, {lower},
{lower-ranking}, {lowly}, {petty(a)}, {secondary}, {subaltern},
{subordinate}]
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"; "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}, {picayune}, {trivial}]
3: contemptibly narrow in outlook; "a little mind consumed with
trivia"; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with the
pettiness of small minds" [syn: {little}, {small}, {small-minded}]