petty (adj.)
small, weak, inadequate, insignificant
1H6 I.i.91[Second Messenger to nobles] France is revolted from the English quite, / Except some petty towns of no import
AC III.xii.8[Ambassador to Caesar, of Antony] I was of late as petty to his ends / As is the morn-dew on the myrtle leaf / To his grand sea
Cym I.ii.42[Innogen to Posthumus] Such parting were too petty
Ham I.iv.82[Hamlet to Horatio and Marcellus] each petty artere in this body
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