petty 的定义
pet·ti·er, pet·ti·est.
- of little or no importance or consequence: petty grievances.
- of lesser or secondary importance, merit, etc.; minor: petty considerations.
- having or showing narrow ideas, interests, etc.: petty minds.
- mean or ungenerous in small or trifling things: a petty person.
- showing or caused by meanness of spirit: a petty revenge.
- of secondary rank, especially in relation to others of the same class or kind: petty states; a petty tyrant.
petty 近义词
trivial, insignificant
petty 的近义词 39 个
- frivolous
- lesser
- minor
- narrow-minded
- base
- inessential
- inferior
- junior
- light
- little
- lower
- peanut
- scratch
- secondary
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- subordinate
- trifling
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- inconsequent
- inconsiderable
- irrelevant
- measly
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- paltry
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- shabby
- small-minded
- two-bit
- unimportant
petty 的反义词 17 个
更多petty例句
- Look, of course it makes celebrities look weak and petty to get all het up about Chris Discourse now — Now!
- For another, many of the alleged crimes, like petty theft, are not that serious—while others aren’t specified at all.
- What she is watching is mostly petty trivialities, and the power of the novel comes from Batuman’s ability to render those trivialities worthwhile.
- Imagine a president using that awesome power again for good rather than for exacting petty revenge on real and imagined enemies.
- Another employee reported Carson searched a school site looking for employees mishandling petty cash.
- Petty, shade, and thirst are my favorite human “virtues” and the trifecta of any good series of “stories.”
- In no way, he said, did Brown deserve to die for what began as petty theft.
- No more cynically cutting opposition candidates out of a district for petty political purposes.
- Of how incredibly petty the offense can be and how insanely disproportionate the retaliation can be.
- But when the end result is tens of millions raised, do the shades of vanity or petty grudges truly matter?
- Aunty Rosa had credited him in the past with petty cunning and stratagem that had never entered into his head.
- On the 25th of November following the magistrates began to sit daily at Petty Sessions.
- He became the low-born, petty tradesman, using the language of the hands of his jam factory.
- He would give them money to return to their lines and for petty expenses en route.
- Of the numerous petty divinities which watched over the child's early years we have already given some account.