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Petty vs Sordid - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between petty and sordid

is that petty is little, small, secondary in rank or importance while sordid is dirty or squalid.

As a proper noun Petty

is {{surname|lang=en}.

petty

English

(wikipedia petty)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
    • Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all.'' (Milton, ''Samson Agonistes , 1671)
    petty officer'', ''petty cash
  • Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
    • a petty fault
  • Narrow-minded, small-minded.

    • Derived terms

    * petty cash * petty officer * petty king * pettiness * petty crime

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    See also

    * quibble

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    sordid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dirty or squalid.
  • Morally degrading.
  • * 1912 ,
    • He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
  • Grasping.

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    Derived terms

    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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