All 3 Uses of
petty
in
Arrowsmith
- A few years later, living on the tiny inheritance from his father, a petty banker, and quite carelessly and cheerfully exhausting it, he was analyzing critically the ptomain theory of disease, and investigating the mechanism of the attenuation of virulence of microorganisms.†
Chpt 12
- There will never, in any age, be an effort to end the great epidemics or the petty infections which will not have been influenced by Max Gottlieb's researches, for he was not one who tagged and prettily classified bacteria and protozoa.†
Chpt 12
- Constant criticism was good, if only it was not spiteful, jealous, petty— No, even then it might be good!†
Chpt 36 *
Definition:
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(petty as in: a petty crime) of less importance -- at times implying insignificance