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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a petty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is trivial or of little importance, often in a negative context.
Example: "His complaints about the seating arrangement were just a petty issue that could have been easily resolved."
Alternatives: "a trivial" or "a minor".
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And a Petty God announces a woman liable to pettiness.
I became a petty bourgeois scribe.
voguer, Fr.] A petty small-rate lawyer.
A petty ignorant pretender to politicks.
This may seem like a petty concern.
But that is a petty detail.
He really is a petty, silly man.
"He's a petty tyrant," she said.
Graveney's international career ended in a petty dispute.
It was a petty felony.' Not me," he said.
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Rodchenko was attacked as a "petty-bourgeois formalist".
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