pettiness
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6.2
- noun
- /ˈpɛtɪnəs/
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mezquindad
- Her pettiness became obvious when she refused to forgive a small mistake.
And we kind of traffic here a little bit in pettiness, Neil.
- And we kind of traffic here a little bit in pettiness, Neil.
- Jackie and JFK symbolized the opposite of vulgar pettiness.
- And they get lost or caught up in this back and forth battle of pettiness.
- But she who served great powers, she, the priestess of Grim Knight, was free of that pettiness.
- And as such, their anti establishment perspectives then become fueled by resentment and jealousy and pettiness.
- So they go back and forth and that backing and forthing and that chronic tension often comes out as rage and pettiness and general ick.
- Entitlement, hypocrisy, pettiness, passive aggression, overt aggression, gaslighting.
- And Trump, the very pettiness and the very honesty that I respect him for so much.
- The battles are so brutal because the stakes are so puny and so much of his pettiness and puniness.
- I'm just embracing all my character defects, all my shittiness, all my pettiness.
- So that's the way pettiness the man wants to do his show and using TikTok stars then from it.
Examples
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Most people long to overcome pettiness and become part of something larger.
Blog text (8) -
Our aim is to support individual genius and free those people from the bureaucratic pettiness of academe. -- J. Roderick MacArthur, 1979
Academic text (2010) -
We have no time for this pettiness.
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Life is too short for all of this pettiness.
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Larry, pettiness is an ugly thing.
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The time had come to put pettiness aside, to behave like a physician.
Fiction book (1995) -
Such pettiness and such greatness are rarely found in one person.
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Life had settled for him back into its daily course of vulgar pettiness, just like before the war.
Fiction book (1998) -
But to dwell on such pettiness distracts us from the big picture all around us.
Blog text (25) -
Still, the current rift has been unprecedented in its scope, intensity, and, at times, pettiness.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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Being mean or petty about little things
Being mean about small things
Arguing about small unimportant details to avoid making a decision
Being unkind and cruel to other people on purpose
A lack of kindness or willingness to help others
Antonyms
How Petty
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pettiness comes from the word petty, which comes from the French petit meaning 'small'. So pettiness is about treating things as 'small', which explains why it means caring too much about unimportant details and being small-minded.