Meaning of pissant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ant.
2. An insignificant person.
   derogatory, slang
3. A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.
   derogatory, slang
4. A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.
   derogatory, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“It is the beauty of well designed fascism that it gives every piss-ant an ant hill to piss from.”

““Everyone is saying, ‘You can’t be serious about targeting Iran. Look at Iraq,’” the former intelligence official told me. “But they say, ‘We’ve got some lessons learned—not militarily, but how we did it politically. We’re not going to rely on agency pissants.’ No loose ends, and that’s why the C.I.A. is out of there.””

“Their manager is a real pissant about break times.”

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