Petty and Silly

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Petty adjective - Not broad or open in views or opinions.

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Silly and petty are semantically related In some cases you can use "Silly" instead an adjective "Petty".

Nearby Words: pettish, pettiness, pettily

Silly adjective - Lacking in seriousness or maturity.

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Petty and silly are semantically related in trivial topic. Sometimes you can use "Petty" instead an adjective "Silly".

Nearby Word: silliness

And if a character does dress to the nines at every occasion and isn't evil, they are at least dismissed as very flippant or silly or petty and mean.

Source: Modest Royalty
As if the unnerving animation wasn't enough, he builds an adorable little claymation village for the children to play with - and then kills all the residents brutally while talking about how silly and petty humanity is.

Source: Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
His plans usually involve creating potentially evil devices for silly, petty reasons.

Source: Punch Clock Villain / Western Animation

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