(superl.) Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.
(2) I realize it’s petty, but it’s like the Michael Bolton thing from Office Space.
(3) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(4) Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away in the next news cycle.
(5) We took all the feedback from users and put pencil to paper to create our consumer 3D printer built for speed and ease of use,” said Pettis.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
(7) She won’t apologize for whatever makes the New York Times treat her with middle-school levels of petty scorn .
(8) The president should have directed the Justice Department to stop taking stupid points and petty appeals.” One reason the Justice Department pursued the habeas cases so hard was its client: the Pentagon.
(9) As the locus of many migrants' investments, the village of Los Pinos has experienced a modest growth in the number of full-time jobs paying somewhat above the minimum urban wage and in a variety of petty entrepreneurial activities depending heavily on the patronage of migrant households, themselves heavily subsidized by remittances.
(10) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
(11) Some are retired, others straddle the uncertain worlds of petty trading, agriculture and seasonal migrant labour.
(12) Not long ago, the mecca of American tourism was populated by sex workers, transvestites, drug addicts and petty criminals, rather than middle-class tourists.
(13) All the petty differences that divide us seem to melt away.
(14) Abdeslam relied on a large network of friends and relatives that already existed for drug dealing and petty crime to keep him in hiding,” Belgium’s federal prosecutor, Frederic Van Leeuw, told Belgian public broadcaster RTBF.
(15) Another said: "The problem with PMQs isn't so much that it's shouty but that the so-called pinnacle of political debate in this country is two men trading petty insults and making nasty jokes about the other while the rest of parliament boos and cheers behind them.
(16) They included a former monk, two young men with learning disabilities, a handful of petty criminals and a teacher at a private school in Paris who was "disappeared" by another republican group, the INLA.
(17) The study was conducted in the three contiguous counties of Johnson, Lafayette and Pettis in west central Missouri.
(18) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
(19) It also found that some children were put into care without lawful basis, including for petty theft and for being rude.
(20) Parents are required to bring up children responsibly, while living in a form of servitude to licensed employers and petty line managers, often themselves at risk of returning to zero-hours.
Tiff
Definition:
(n.) Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
(n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.
(v. i.) To be in a pet.
(v. t.) To deck out; to dress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
(2) One tabloid describes that moment as "playful", unwittingly anticipating Saatchi's later claim that the photos of him with his hands around his wife's throat merely caught them in the middle of a "playful tiff" .
(3) And the Oscar may go to … 40 key movies in contention for 2016 awards Read more Sandwiched between the Venice and Toronto festivals, both of which also screen Oscar-hopeful fare (Venice recently premiered Tom Hooper’s new bid for hardware, The Danish Girl , which next screens at Tiff), Telluride boasts fantastic Oscar odds: six of the last seven best picture winners premiered at the festival – four of them (Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech, Argo, 12 Years a Slave) were world premieres.
(4) A program for achieving density profiles of Tiff images is described.
(5) Photograph: Tiff The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch as enigma codebreaker Alan Turing, is set for a Canadian premiere, suggesting it may debut elsewhere beforehand.
(6) It is designed to process sequences of sagittal tongue sections that are digitized in real time and stored in standard tagged image file format (TIFF).
(7) At one crucial point in the game Murray was incandescently upset with Jamie for standing in his sight line at one end of the court but the tiff subsided when the elder Murray moved as he was told.
(8) Photograph: TIFF Ben Mendelsohn schools Jack O'Connell in the art of prison life in David Mackenzie's powerful new drama.
(9) Trump had a well-publicized tiff with Fox News after one of the network’s top hosts, Megyn Kelly, challenged him during the first Republican debate.
(10) If this is what her husband calls a playful tiff one fears what a serious one might look like.
(11) Challenged over the shocking images published in the Sunday People, Saatchi responded that what appeared to be a brutal and humiliating instance of public violence was no more than a "playful tiff".
(12) Photograph: Tiff But many premieres are still to be announced – in North America as well as in Italy (Toronto drip-feeds its lineup in three batches).
(13) Trump’s victory makes the upset of Brexit look like a quaint tiff over a round of golf.
(14) "This is not a 'row'; it is not a 'tiff': it is an incidence of domestic violence," she said.
(15) Unfortunately for Tiff, which celebrated its 40th birthday this year, the slate was considered a bit of a letdown.
(16) Now the record's finished they say they never even tiff.
(17) To complicate things further, during a tiff with his record company Def Jam last year, Nash put out a free download album under his birth name.
(18) Yet while most British bands spend years slogging through magazine interviews, starting fake tiffs with other bands for column inches and touring the nation's Barflys in hope of some elusive buzz, Alt-J have somehow managed to find success without fame.
(19) Parameters evaluated at baseline and on the last day of treatment included (i) results of respiratory function tests (FEV1, IVC, FVC, TIFF, PEF, MEF75, MEF50, MEF25) performed before the stimulation test with nebulized water; (ii) total number of coughs during a 2-hour period after the stimulation test; (iii) bronchial responsiveness, quantified by calculating the volume of nebulized water required to induce a 20% reduction of FEV1 below the basal level.
(20) Charlie Kaufman’s breathtaking , Kickstarter-funded stop-motion romance had perhaps the best run of all the films to screen: it won Venice’s Grand Jury Prize during Tiff (it actually world-premiered at Telluride), and was acquired in a surprising move by Paramount Pictures, which intends to give it a qualifying run.