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Petty

//ˈpɛt.i//

Synonyms for "petty" (223 found)

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Informal (45)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

mean base gross

Adj, adv, name, noun, prep, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, adv, det, name, noun, pron, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(11 words)

casual shoddy stuffy poky miserable picayune scrubby crummy dinky low-down jerkwater

Adj, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

minute punk frail potty pimping

Adj, verb, slang(2 words)

shabby piffling

Adj, slang(10 words)

wretched cheesy irrelevant stingy measly scabby scummy twopenny-halfpenny two-bit mingy

Adj, name, noun, slang(2 words)

scruffy Mickey Mouse

Prep_phrase, slang(1 words)

Noun, slang(1 words)

General use (178)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb(2 words)

Adj, noun, verb(18 words)

foul narrow empty shuffling miniature abject vain trifling lumpen imperfect bickering deaf niggling purblind grudging shoestring peddling footling

Adjective(15 words)

little secondary picayune trivial lowly niggling subaltern piffling piddling lilliputian fiddling footling small-minded junior-grade lower-ranking

Adj, name, noun, verb(5 words)

poor grave slight minor shallow

Adjective(57 words)

monstrous fulsome atrocious flagrant abominable paltry obnoxious odious execrable heinous frivolous fanatical cursory contemptible nefarious unconsidered miserly pathetic bigoted hidebound

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Adj, noun(30 words)

vile inferior superficial incidental puny authoritarian scurvy insular provincial trivial inadequate mediocre squalid insignificant immaterial despicable deficient impertinent incompetent reptilian

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unworthy parochial inconsequential illiberal unmentionable maladroit inessential tinhorn two-by-four choplogic

Adj, verb(9 words)

closed disgusting cramped meager debased degraded depraved piddling constricted

Adj, name(1 words)

Adj, adv(2 words)

beggarly niggardly

Noun(7 words)

outhouse bigot narrow gauge nit-picking no great shakes petit larceny petty larceny

Noun, verb(8 words)

hairsplitting hedging quibbling shyster caviling pussyfooting pettifogging paltering

Det, name, pron(1 words)

Adj, name, noun(1 words)

Adj, det(1 words)

Name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, name, verb(1 words)

creedbound low down closed minded little minded small minded logic chopping mean-minded narrow-spirited one horse deaf to reason narrow-hearted little-minded not in it logic-chopping not comparable trichoschistic small-beer of no account

Prep_phrase(1 words)

out of the running

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