- 看过 pettiness 的人也看了 :
- smallness
- unimportance
- paltriness
- silliness
- triviality
- inconsiderableness
- negligibility
pettiness 的定义
- 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.
pettiness 近义词
extreme unimportance
更多pettiness例句
- 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.