What is Petty?
1.
When someone takes a small subject and blows it out of proportion.
At times, making something otherwise insignificant into something bigger to suit their own agenda.
Daisy: Man, that girl is so petty. She can really make a mountain out of a mole hill.
Informed Annie: Oh Jesus, the AFA is boycotting Ford just because they posted ads in gay magazines. How petty!
2.
Someone that is so insignificant as to be almost unworthy of notice, even despicable. Marked by narrowness of mind, ideas, or views. Deliberately nasty for a foolish or trivial reason.
Florence is so petty she took home all the toilet paper, even the one already on the dispenser, because she was mad that she had no friends, no life, and no clue.
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3.
A hairy male who has an odd obsession with younger females. He persues them and then cries when they reject him for people their age. Who also makes fun of black people alot.
Hussein was being such a Petty when he started to date my younger sister. He also hurt my feelings for calling me a slang term for blacks.
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4.
As in petty
Derived from the concerned mother, Betty Adams, in 2001.
Betty is tretty but Ryan is petty.
5.
Petrol, gas.
"Have you got $5 to throw in for petty money."
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6.
when you feel bad
I feel a bit petty today
