
Xem thêm: petit larceny, petty larceny, junior-grade, inferior, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subaltern, subordinate, fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, picayune, trivial, small-minded
n.
adj.
the junior faculty
a lowly corporal
petty officialdom
a subordinate functionary
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
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
petty little comments
disgusted with their small-minded pettiness