Usually means: Small-minded about trivial matters.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word petty:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Petty, petty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. petty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. petty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. petty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. petty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Petty, petty: Wordnik
  7. petty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Petty, petty: Wiktionary
  9. petty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. petty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. petty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. petty: Dictionary.com
  13. petty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. petty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Petty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Petty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. petty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. petty: Rhymezone
  19. petty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. petty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. petty: Free Dictionary
  22. petty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. petty: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. petty: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. petty: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petty: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. petty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. petty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pettier as well.)

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adjective:  (often derogatory)
adjective:  Having little or no importance.
adjective:  Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.
adjective:  (informal) Inclined to cause frustration or annoyance to others out of spite over minor grievances; extremely vindictive.
adjective:  (historical) Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.
adjective:  (obsolete except in set phrases)
adjective:  Little or small in size.
adjective:  Secondary in importance or rank; minor, subordinate.
noun:  (dialectal, euphemistic, informal) An outbuilding used as a lavatory; an outhouse, a privy.
noun:  (historical) A class or school for young schoolboys.
noun:  (obsolete, chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
noun:  A surname.

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