pettiness
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Pettiness — Pet ti*ness, n. The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pettiness — noun a) The quality of being petty. The pettiness of the accounting department asking me to save a receipt from a fast food restaurant was absurd. b) A petty behaviour, attitude, etc … Wiktionary
pettiness — noun (U) behaviour and attitudes that are ungenerous and are too much concerned with unimportant matters: the jealousy and pettiness of Hollywood … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
pettiness — petty ► ADJECTIVE (pettier, pettiest) 1) trivial. 2) mean; small minded. 3) minor. 4) Law (of a crime) of lesser importance. Compare with GRAND(Cf. ↑grandness). DERIVATIVES … English terms dictionary
pettiness — noun see petty … New Collegiate Dictionary
pettiness — See pettily. * * * … Universalium
pettiness — Synonyms and related words: abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, authoritarianism, baseness, beggarliness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, closed mind, contemptibility, contemptibleness, cramped ideas, crumminess, daintiness,… … Moby Thesaurus
pettiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Contemptible unimportance: inconsiderableness, negligibility, negligibleness, paltriness, smallness, triviality, trivialness. See IMPORTANT … English dictionary for students
pettiness — pet|ti|ness [ petinəs ] noun uncount unpleasant behavior caused by caring too much about unimportant things … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
pettiness — pet·ti·ness || petɪnɪs n. trivialness, triteness, state of being concerned with insignificant issues … English contemporary dictionary
