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Definisjon av petty

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Adjective
petty - contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
small-minded
narrow-minded, narrow lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"
petty - (informal) 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"
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, picayune, trivial
unimportant not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
petty - inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, secondary, subaltern
junior used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"
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Adjektiv
petty - Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
petty - Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
petty - Narrow-minded, small-minded.

Adjektiv - Gradbøying

  • Positiv: petty
  • Komparativ: pettier / more petty
  • Superlativ: pettiest / most petty

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