Define Petty Meaning

Petty
1. making things, events, or actions normal people dismiss as trivial or insignificant into excuses to be upset, uncooperative, childish, or stubborn.

2. A person who habitually overreacts.

3. A person who is purposefully childish with the intent of illiciting a reaction (sometimes funny).

4. An immature over reaction in retaliation of an undesired outcome.

1. Susie is upset the teacher didn't call on her after answering three times in a row. She's petty.

2. I really don't feel like going over Xenobia's house today, you know shes mad petty.

3. She told me if I change the game I might have a chance so I turned the channel from Knicks to the PGA tour.

4. "Oooooooh so you want to stay out all night?" *changes locks on front door*
By Kristi
Petty
Me

I am petty
By Carolin
Petty
someone who does something in an attempt to hurt another person but really just makes themself look like a fucking idiot

McKinley keeps subtweeting me, she's so damn petty
By Didi
Petty
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!
By Lelia
Petty
someone who dose things on purpose to get a reaction out of someone

lucy is so petty
By Chelsea
Petty
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.
By Sophronia
Petty
makes everything a bigger deal than what it really is, starts drama

"your being so jen rn." (jen=petty)
By Prudence
Petty
A word that used to describe someone who overreacts to something trivial that offends them, but is now used by illiterates to describe anyone who trolls someone else for any reason.

Friend: That dude Joe's so petty. He said I laugh like a hyena.
Me: That's not petty. That's just making fun at your expense, dummy.
By Melesa
Petty

There's a girl that you don't like and you go sit next to her to deliberately annoy her and to get a reaction which is being petty
By Bev
Petty
1. something of minor importance.
2. money that a passenger uses to pay a driver giving them a lift.

1. The juvenile resorted to petty crime to make money.
2. A status on Facebook: "Doing lifts for petty $$$."
By Alexi