| 单词 | petty |
| 释义 | pet·ty I. 1. < the mountainous character of Greece explains its division into a crowd of petty states — Edward Clodd > < a primarily agrarian society of petty producers — R.H.Hilton > 2. < defend with our lives the petty principles which divide us — Henry Miller > < the petty cares and vexations that absorb life's energies — M.R.Cohen > 3. a. < thought that little colleges are woefully circumscribed and petty places — A.C.Benson > < suffering … makes men petty and vindictive — W.S.Maugham > b. < revealed to us the petty cruelty of men, not the large injustice of the gods — Virginia Woolf > Synonyms: < giants beside whom we seem petty — Sinclair Lewis > < the universe of our fathers shrinks to a petty compass, not much larger than the snug little state of Connecticut — V.L.Parrington > < petty courts > < fruit dealers, chestnut roasters, cigar venders, and other people, whose petty and wandering traffic is transacted in the open air — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < the contrast between a dying way of life which is spacious and noble and a new way which is petty and crude — E.K.Brown > < the petty, quibbling type of lawyer — Kenneth Roberts > puny applies to what is small or slight enough to seem feeble or ineffectual < a man of puny frame > < the streams, often puny and insignificant during dry weather, become raging torrents during a storm — C.L.White & G.T.Renner > < he was a puny eater — Lenard Kaufman > < his puny accomplishments and his many failures — F.G.Slaughter > trivial applies to what is petty and commonplace, especially not worth any special notice, extending to apply to persons or activities marked by concern for mainly trivial matters < philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits — William James > < had seemed to him trivial and of no import — Oscar Wilde > < the incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life — C.W.Eliot > < light, trivial conversation over tea > trifling applies to what is so small or unimportant as to have little if any value or significance < their estimate of her very trifling merits: and their wonder that their brothers could find any charms in her — W.M.Thackeray > < a considerable sum was paid to Egmont and a trifling one to the Prince — J.L.Motley > < most accidents are of trifling extent, and involve nothing more than the loss of time — American Guide Series: New York City > paltry applies to what is ridiculously or contemptibly small especially by comparison with what it should be < how unsubstantial then appear our hopes and dreams, our little ambitions, our paltry joys — A.C.Benson > < paltry personal details prevail over world problems and cosmic questions — O.W.Holmes † 1935 > < a little equipment costing a paltry amount — F.T.Williams > measly applies to what is contemptibly small or petty < snatch at a little measly advantage and miss the big one — Sherwood Anderson > < a measly portion of pie > < a measly stingy individual > picayunish and picayune usually apply to the petty and insignificant, or to what is paltry in outlook or interests < a lifetime of picayunish drudgery in the company of louts — H.L.Davis > < weed out dishonest or picayunish government employees > < a narrow, picayune mind — Felix Lazarus > < the obvious futility, the picayune, question-begging character, of such ethical analyses — Asher Moore > II. 1. archaic 2. dialect England |
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