petty

Adjective

• contemptibly narrow in outlook
  • petty little comments
    
  • disgusted with their small-minded pettiness
    

• (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
    

• inferior in rank or status
  • the junior faculty
    
  • a lowly corporal
    
  • petty officialdom
    
  • a subordinate functionary
    

Noun

• larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  small-minded , junior-grade , lower-ranking , lowly , petty(a) , secondary , subaltern , petit larceny , petty larceny
• Antonyms: 
  grand larceny , grand theft