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 pettiness ['petinis]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 琐碎, 微小, 小气, 委琐, 偏狭, 卑鄙, 心胸狭窄的举动



    pettiness
    [ noun ]
    1. narrowness of mind or ideas or views

    2. <noun.cognition>
    3. the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous

    4. <noun.attribute>
    5. lack of generosity in trifling matters

    6. <noun.attribute>


    Pettiness \Pet"ti*ness\, n.
    The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness;
    meanness.

    1. The book probes more deeply than any other yet published in the Soviet Union into Stalin's mind and methods, the pettiness and arbitrariness that guided his followers, the innocence of his victims and the terror he created.
    2. It was all vindictive pettiness.
    3. The game, called "Building a Monument to Stalin," takes satirical aim at the relics of Communist rule - Marxist education, the secret police, bureaucratic pettiness and corruption.
    4. Exquisite science has been offset by folly or pettiness, the latter illustrated by those who, out of jealousy, refused to let colleagues view their fossil finds.
    5. Nov. 24 The Capital Times, Madison, Wis., on Congress: Here's a saga of pettiness and arrogance run amok.
    6. Ultimately, the burden falls on the President to confront their destructive pettiness.
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