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Meanings of narrowness in English
An inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior.
Usage of narrowness in English
1
The narrowness of the pathway gave the advantage to the Italian commander.
2
In this way the narrowness of the streets may be accounted for.
3
The universality of the Gospel is overflowing the banks of Jewish narrowness.
4
They looked the taller because of the narrowness of the street itself.
5
We waded in and discovered that the cause was its extreme narrowness.
6
She was cramped with the extreme narrowness of the enthusiasm of youth.
7
The extraordinary narrowness of the channel forced them to ride single file.
8
These qualities compensate, in some measure, for the narrowness of available opportunities.
9
I'd rather have that than the new Parisian narrowness-thecantofdecadence.
10
Modern liberal sentiment-so-called-willnot consent to such narrowness as the old-fashioned classification.
11
There is not only the narrowness of rooms to bring us together.
12
The father had a Scotch look of shrewd narrowness, and entire self-complacency.
13
And by its narrowness and inflexibility, it imposes a rigour of thought.
14
In doing so, it proves that close focus does not mean narrowness.
15
There was no narrowness, any more than there was jealousy, in Anne.
16
In Fairbridge narrowness reigned, nay, tyrannised, and was not recognised as such.
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