petty criticism

1. 1.

   a petty disparagement

   Synonymsdetraction

   Broaderdisparagement

Questions about petty criticism

What does petty criticism mean?

petty criticism means "a petty disparagement".

What is another word for petty criticism?

Close synonyms include detraction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is petty criticism a common word?

petty criticism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.