petty
     adj 1: 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}]
     2: (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}]
     3: contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments";
        "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" [syn: {small-minded}]
     [also: {pettiest}, {pettier}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0