petty (
http://definr.com/petty)
adj 1: inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly
corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate
functionary" [syn:
junior-grade,
inferior,
lower,
lower-ranking,
lowly,
petty(a),
secondary,
subaltern,
subordinate]
2: (informal terms) small and of little importance; "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"; "Mickey Mouse
regulations"; "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" [syn:
fiddling,
footling,
lilliputian,
little,
Mickey Mouse,
niggling,
piddling,
piffling,
picayune,
trivial]
3: contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments";
"disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" [syn:
small-minded]