pettiness
娇气,小气,娇弱,琐事
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- : the quality or condition of being of little, lesser, or no importance, consequence, or merit; insignificance: The economic cost of these wildfires pales into pettiness when compared to the real victims—the wildlife and the natural landscape.The film is a comedy about the boredom, pettiness, and general strangeness of working in an office, as the protagonists spend their days plotting a way out of their dull and meaningless jobs.
- : the quality or condition of having or expressing limited ideas, interests, etc.; narrow-mindedness:The novel is set against a background of small-town deceit and pettiness.
- : the quality or condition of being unkind, stingy, or ungenerous, especially in small or trifling things; meanspiritedness:Their pettiness is perhaps best demonstrated by the threatened removal of an assortment of services provided to residents—things like fresh fruit, free coffee, and a monthly outing.
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Examples
This is hardly the greatest tragedy of Spears’ life under conservatorship, but the pettiness is telling.
For Swift, it’s a powerful flex, a brilliant example of fan service and an exercise in high-minded pettiness, all at the same time.
I really feel, at 60 years old, I’m sort of glad I got to indulge some of the pettiness of what I’d been.
It is a fascinating story of rivalry and even pettiness, albeit with huge stakes in the form of prizes, patents, profits, and prestige.
Rather, he dishes up a seemingly endless stream of examples of pettiness, irritation, hypocrisy and awkwardness.
The pettiness could be no issue—photograph all of your children, rainbows, sunsets, and kittens.
Why turn a genuine good-news story into an expression of childish pettiness?
It represents instead a sorry reflection of the pettiness of current political debate in Washington.
And it makes the pettiness and obstinacy on display in the U.S. over these negotiations all the more unseemly.
We might read between the lines his noble love of mankind, his compassion for our helplessness, our mortality and pettiness.
And on these faces, there was a certain pettiness and coldness not observable on those of the poorer women.
But eventually some experience will reveal to them the pettiness of their estimate, and a readjustment of values is made.
Back they would come at night, and the terrible, narrow maelstrom of pettiness sucked them in.
Under cover of their primitive Christianity I never found more pettiness.