petty

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Annoyances There are only a few things that I really dislike, and some of them are rather petty.
• so: An unsigned Angel Investigations credit card to be specific, and some not so petty cash.
• too: Life's too short Meaning Response to a request to do something that seems too petty to waste valuable time on.
• very: Its size of a few thousand Planck lengths, makes it a very petty pea.
• just: Just petty smugness and people making clowns of themselves.
• not: They're not petty ones, I can tell you.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

sound: It might all sound a bit petty, after all does it really make that much difference and after all we all make mistakes.

Modifies a noun

• bourgeoisie: The old term for these is the " petty bourgeoisie " .
• offense: Petty offense or not they may look like players also tend.
• bourgeois: Much better to join forces with the petty bourgeois Scottish National Party in campaigning for an independent capitalist Scotland.
• squabble: We cannot allow petty squabbles over insignificant items of polity distract us from the goal of winning the world for Christ.
• thief: Others are taken by petty thieves or by drug abusers needing their next fix.
• jealousy: I'd never have made it to 1998 a football fan if my teams fortunes and petty jealousy governed whether I enjoyed the game.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Life's too short Meaning Response to a request to do something that seems too petty to waste valuable time on.
• sound: I'm finding this hard to explain as it actually sounds so petty.
• say: Wonder how much quot said petty to him a book bad beats.
• look: We will make the action of the past few months look petty.