pettiness's Usage Examples:

top of the mountain–signalling to the reader the need to rise above the pettiness in which most of the novel's characters are entrammeled in order to see.

Michaud responded saying that the comments reflected Arthur's "well-known pettiness" and stating she intended to "do politics differently.

It satirises the pettiness of the inhabitants of small-town Germany, using the ancient Greek town.

Gharty sometimes displays racist paranoia, homophobia and other forms of pettiness, but for the most part redeems himself as a police officer, demonstrating.

Reversed: Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.

to Pope, admitting that Pope was a better poet but complaining of the pettiness shown by Pope's treatment of those who offended him.

of the movement, and pleaded for the setting aside of any narrowness, pettiness, class feeling, and prejudice in connection with the consideration of.

Thea Astley has written a sensitive and intense study of the cruel pettiness of a small town country community as it is experienced by Vinny, Helen.

had enough of the lies, the sanctimony, the ignorance, the hatred, the pettiness, the NRA.

was often praised for his abilities and integrity but criticized for pettiness.

Hesitancy, pettiness, distrust, anxiety, self-blame and obsessions shape his existence.

when his radical passion turns to pessimism when confronted with the pettiness and cruelty of Orlov.

" The trials exposed the pettiness, conspiracies, corruption, and incompetence, within the regime, and served.

Shocked by the startling discovery into realizing his own pettiness, Matt slowly changes his ways of teaching and in the process wins the.

then he proceeds to dismantle Pusha with glorious pettiness.

describes as "distasteful, even dangerous personality traits", such as pettiness, spitefulness, and cruelty.

and said "Prithviraj is terrific in a captivating drama on pride and pettiness, fandom and fury", and "each time you think you have cracked Driving Licence.

Synonyms:

puniness; slightness; triviality; joke; unimportance;

Antonyms:

movableness; looseness; movability; distribution; generosity;