Crossword clues for pettiest
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-superlativepetty)
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 "pettiest".
In some cases, even the pettiest legal formalities are dispensed with.
One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind.
So they were able to spend their time giving longwinded speeches on the glories of republicanism and issuing challenges to each other over the pettiest slights imaginable.
Many a respectably well-dressed lady, many a fine old gentleman, many an elderly spinster whose religion had kept her young would never have come to know the thief in their hearts if your voice had not tempted them to steal, not to mention the changes it wrought in self-righteous citizens who until that hour had looked upon the pettiest and most incompetent of pickpockets as a dangerous criminal.
For a long time the Old One paced back and forth and swore with the pettiest foul oaths of the marketplace and gutter until at last, shaking and out of breath, he stood before the altar and stared up at the banner of the reversed pentagram on the wall behind it.