Adjective:

निचतापूर्ण, छोटे पद का, अल्प, तुच्छ, क्षुद्र,

petty's Usage Examples:

The brutalities of Austrias white coats in the north, the unintelligent repression then characteristic of the house of Savoy, the petty spite of the duke of Modena, the medieval obscurantism of pope and cardinals in the middle of the peninsula and the clownish excesses of Ferdinand in the south, could not blot out from the minds of the Italians the recollection of the benefits derived from the just laws, vigorous administration and enlightened aims of the great emperor.

Apart from that, the chief source of our error in this matter is due to the fact that in the historical accounts a whole series of innumerable, diverse, and petty events, such for instance as all those which led the French armies to Russia, is generalized into one event in accord with the result produced by that series of events.

The mountaineers excel also in a variety of petty trades.

There is no step, no crime or petty fraud he commits, which in the mouths of those around him is not at once represented as a great deed.

Henceforward the petty states of Syria were at all times subject to one or other of the great world-empires, and were still in dispute between Babylonia and Egypt as late as Necho.

Behind the College is the Royal Hospital School, where woo boys, sons of petty officers and seamen, are boarded.

He had annihilated the petty kings of the South, had crushed the aristocracy, enforced the acceptance of Christianity throughout the kingdom, asserted his suzerainty in the Orkney Islands, had humbled the king of Sweden and married his daughter in his despite, and had conducted a successful raid on Denmark.

They acted also as police courts in the case of petty thefts, breaches of the peace and the like.

In Wischau itself, a petty German town, Rostov saw the Emperor again.

All the petty supervising establishments are composed of convicts.

Synonyms:

narrow-minded, small-minded, narrow,

Antonyms:

old, more, much, high, important,