| 单词 | petty |
| 释义 | petty (peti ) Word forms: pettier , pettiest 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] You can use petty to describe things such as problems, rules, or arguments which you think are unimportant or relate to unimportant things. [disapproval] He was miserable all the time and rows would start over petty things. ...endless rules and petty regulations. The meeting degenerated into petty squabbling. 2. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you describe someone's behaviour as petty, you mean that they care too much about small, unimportant things and perhaps that they are unnecessarily unkind. [disapproval] He was petty-minded and obsessed with detail. I think that attitude is a bit petty. Synonyms: small-minded, mean, cheap [informal], grudging pettiness uncountable noun Never had she met such spite and pettiness. 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Petty is used of people or actions that are less important, serious, or great than others. Wilson was not a man who dealt with petty officials. ...petty crime, such as handbag-snatching and minor break-ins. Synonyms: minor, lower, junior, secondary Collocations: petty argument Even when we have just a silly, petty argument over something minor he tells me to pack my things and leave. The Sun What a cruel and petty argument for denying food to millions of starving people. The Sun The catalyst for this split in ranks was a seemingly petty argument over hot or cold suppers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They fall briefly into a petty argument about whether getting married to each other was a good decision. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, he got into too many, often ridiculous, petty arguments - exemplified by his needless rant at me. The Sun They have also been the scene of less high-minded activity, petty rivalries and squabbles. The Times Literary Supplement Like far-left factions, groups that had much in common built up petty rivalries. Times, Sunday Times So how do you know whether you're moving to a warm, supportive community or one that's riven by feuds and petty rivalries? Times,Sunday Times It was fraught with incompetence and petty rivalries with factions in conflict with each other; and its operations were prone to the vanities of the monarchs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was a petty squabble in truth. Times, Sunday Times Petty squabbles among the invitees might at any moment fracture into trench warfare. The Times Literary Supplement Rather, it gives fresh depth to a manwhosawhimselfas uniquely qualified to lead his nation above the petty squabbles of everyday politics. Times, Sunday Times Let us not distract them by petty squabbles in the stalls. Times, Sunday Times It makes you feel better to see another family struggling with arguments, petty squabbles and the general trials of family life. The Sun Not because of the petty theft, but as a result of his interaction with members of the public. Times, Sunday Times This was not petty theft. Times, Sunday Times Until last weekend local crime was generally limited to petty theft, occasionally a handbag, a statue from a garden or a bench. Times, Sunday Times And this week distraught retailers have been accusing the police of having effectively decriminalised petty theft by no longer attending routine calls. Times, Sunday Times Most try to get work on local farms, others turn to crime and petty theft to survive. Times, Sunday Times We have to care for this unrepentant petty thief and liar, trapped without identity papers in a maze of smalltown bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times This will make your smartphone even more indispensable, both to you ... and your local petty thief. The Sun Aged ten he was known to police as a petty thief, his housebreaking habit landing him in and out of reform schools. The Sun The criminals range from a brilliant deviant to the petty thief. Times, Sunday Times He enlists a petty thief to enter the cave and retrieve it, whose attempt fails. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She works at various nonprofit organisations, but - while she's often unforgiving in her righteousness - she's quick to forgive her own selfishness and petty thievery. The Times Literary Supplement He also sold his blood for money, and engaged in petty thievery, which resulted in his working as a laborer in a prison gang. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He played an alienated young man, the son of a prosperous automobile dealer, who drifts into petty thievery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What of the fight against jobsworthery, against the petty tyrants of bureaucratic enforcement? Times,Sunday Times But that has to be balanced by a redrawing of the boundaries, so that they're only used to keep us safe - and petty tyrants get nowhere near them. The Sun You've behaved like petty tyrants throughout. The Sun It devolved into a large number of technologically backward societies, many of them ruled by petty tyrants and prey to internecine warfare. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 不重要的 Japanese: 取るに足りない |
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