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Pettiness   /pˈɛtinəs/   Listen
Pettiness

noun
1.
Narrowness of mind or ideas or views.
2.
The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.  Synonyms: puniness, slightness, triviality.
3.
Lack of generosity in trifling matters.  Synonyms: littleness, smallness.





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"Pettiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... worm! (Pause.) And now that we're so far from the world and its pettiness, tell me this: why did you leave him in those ...
— The Road to Damascus - A Trilogy • August Strindberg
... first, I hesitated, as you shall think, because of her way; but truly, my heart knew that her heart did be proper unto me; and, moreover, I should be small in my nature, if that I let any pettiness put a silence upon me; though, in verity, if that the Maid had not been inwardly loving to me, I had been that I had told her no word; and this to be very natural, whether it be of ...
— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson
... would darkness steal over all, unrelieved by a glimmer of light; and misfortune itself, contemptuous of its too facile success, would leave naught behind but a handful of colourless cinders. Nor is it necessary for me to see my neighbour again to be aware that his sorrow will have brought to him pettiness only; for sorrow does merely restore to us that which our soul had ...
— Wisdom and Destiny • Maurice Maeterlinck
... was the truth. Irene was just what she had been a year ago—just what she would always be. Rilla Blythe's nature in that year had changed and matured and deepened. She found herself seeing through Irene with a disconcerting clearness—discerning under all her superficial sweetness, her pettiness, her vindictiveness, her insincerity, her essential cheapness. Irene had lost for ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... the laws of morality. Louis Bonaparte remained, even after the 4th of December, Napoleon the Little. This enormity still left him a dwarf. The size of the crime does not change the stature of the criminal, and the pettiness of the assassin withstands the ...
— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo


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