Petty
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

SAD
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti

FEW
A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"

4 letters

POOR
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"

BASE
Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

MEAN
Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

FINE
Money extracted as a penalty

VAIN
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

TINY
Very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"

PUNY
(used especially of persons) of inferior size

WEAK
Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

TBIT
A unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits

MERE
Being nothing more than specified; "a mere child"

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MINOR
A young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

SMALL
The slender part of the back

LOWLY
Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"

DINKY
A small locomotive

LOWER
The lower of two berths

CHEAP
Relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"

LIGHT
A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires; "do you have a light?"

EMPTY
A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

PETIT

TRITE
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

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HUMBLE
Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski

JUNIOR
A third-year undergraduate

SLIGHT
A deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

CASUAL
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"

LESSER
Smaller in size or amount or value; "the lesser powers of Europe"; "the lesser anteater"

BIASED
Favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"

MINUTE
Characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"

FUTILE
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

SHABBY
Showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

PEANUT
A young child who is small for his age

MEASLY
Contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

SKIMPY
Containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

PALTRY
Contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

TWOBIT

STINGY
Unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

NARROW
A narrow strait connecting two bodies of water

SCANTY
Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)

UNFAIR
Not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"

LITTLE
(of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"

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TRIVIAL
(informal) 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"; "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"

INSULAR
Narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"

UNHEAVY

PIMPING

BIGZERO

SHALLOW
A stretch of shallow water

PUERILE
Of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing"

NOTMANY

IMMORAL
Deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

SCRATCH
(golf) a handicap of zero strokes; "a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course"

HATEFUL
Evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

IGNOBLE
Not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"

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PATHETIC
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

NOBIGGIE

IMMATURE
Not yet mature

CHILDISH
Indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"

EXIGUOUS
Extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"

INFERIOR
One of lesser rank or station or quality

UNNEEDED
Not necessary

PICAYUNE
(informal) 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"; "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"

FIDDLING
(informal) 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"; "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"

FOOTLING
(informal) 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"; "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"

TRIFLING
The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

NIGGLING
(informal) 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"; "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"

PIDDLING
(informal) 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"; "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"

PIFFLING
(informal) 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"; "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"

9 letters

SECONDARY
Coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil

SUBALTERN
A British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain

MALICIOUS
Having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling

PENNYANTE
A business deal on a trivial scale

SMALLTIME

PAROCHIAL
Narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"

FRIVOLOUS
Not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman"

FRUITLESS
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

WORTHLESS
Lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

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IRRELEVANT
Having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue; "an irrelevant comment"; "irrelevant allegations"

PROVINCIAL
Of or associated with a province; "provincial government"

NEGLIGIBLE
So small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible"

SHOESTRING
A lace used for fastening shoes

PREJUDICED
Emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices

11 letters

LILLIPUTIAN
A 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift

UNIMPORTANT
Not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"

JUNIORGRADE

SMALLMINDED

LIGHTWEIGHT
An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds

COUNTRIFIED
Characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness"

INESSENTIAL
Anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials"

SUBORDINATE
A word that is more specific than a given word

MICKEYMOUSE
A fictional mouse created in animated film strips by Walt Disney

12 letters

CONTEMPTIBLE
Deserving of contempt or scorn

NOTIMPORTANT

NONESSENTIAL
Anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials"

PETITLARCENY
Larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)

PETTYLARCENY
Larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)

LOWERRANKING

PETTIFOGGING

UNSCRUPULOUS
Without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power"

INCONSEQUENT
Lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"

NARROWMINDED