Usually means: In a trivial or small-minded manner.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pettily: Merriam-Webster
  2. pettily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pettily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pettily: Vocabulary.com
  5. pettily: Wordnik
  6. pettily: Wiktionary
  7. Pettily, pettily: Dictionary.com
  8. Pettily: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. pettily: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. pettily: Rhymezone
  11. Pettily: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. pettily: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pettily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pettily: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pettily: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. pettily: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pettily: Encyclopedia

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▸ adverb:  In a petty manner.

Similar:
pettishly, petulantly, petitely, quibblingly, cavilingly, pedantly, peskily, cattily, peevishly, picayunely, more...

Opposite:
generously, magnanimously, nobly

Types:
childish, infantile, immature, juvenile, foolish, silly, stupid, idiotic, moronic, more...

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Similar:
pettishly, petulantly, petitely, quibblingly, cavilingly, pedantly, peskily, cattily, peevishly, picayunely, more...

Opposite:
generously, magnanimously, nobly

Types:
childish, infantile, immature, juvenile, foolish, silly, stupid, idiotic, moronic, more...



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