Crossword clues for pettier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Petty \Pet"ty\, a. [Compar. Pettier; superl. Pettiest.] [OE.
petit, F. petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E.
piece. Cf. Petit.]
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior;
subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
--Denham.
Like a petty god
I walked about, admired of all.
--Milton.
Petty averages. See under Average.
Petty cash, money expended or received in small items or amounts.
Petty officer, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.
Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty treason, See Petit.
Syn: Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling; trivial; unimportant; frivolous.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativepetty)
WordNet
adj. 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]
(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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, picayune, trivial]
contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" [syn: small-minded]
See petty
Usage examples of "pettier".
But being a king does spoil a man's taste for the pettier forms of thievery.
He had the impulse to ride far away from Tanelorn and concern himself as much as he could in the pettier affairs of men.