Pettiness
['petinis]
Definition
(noun.) lack of generosity in trifling matters.
(noun.) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
(noun.) narrowness of mind or ideas or views.
Checker: Mattie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
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Examples
- But there was a branch house at the west end, and no pettiness or dinginess to give suggestions of shame. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The jealous pettiness that disfigures the earlier tribal ideas of God give place to a new idea of a god of universal righteousness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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