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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
petty/ˈpeti/

▶adjective (pettier, pettiest)

1 trivial.

2 mean; small-minded.

3 minor.
■ Law (of a crime) of lesser importance.
Compare with grand (in sense 2).

– derivatives
pettily adverb,
pettiness noun.

– origin ME: from a pronunc. of Fr. petit ‘small’.

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