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Meanings of puniness in English

Catalan
futilitat

The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.

        futilitat
        Spanish
        cortedad

        Smallness of stature.

              cortedad
              Synonyms
              Examples for "pettiness"
              Examples for "pettiness"
              1
              Voters were mystified by the pettiness, and the Liberals saw their chance.
              The Guardian
              2
              The horrible pettiness of it all, constituted the maddening sting of it.
              The Debtor: A Novel
              3
              Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.
              The Conquest of Fear
              4
              It is not the pettiness, but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 / A Magazin...
              5
              There is freedom to be achieved from the pettiness of our lives.
              The Chief End of Man
              1
              But space was a triviality in a place that didn't truly exist.
              A nameless witch
              2
              We all understand the triviality as well as the importance of music.
              The new yorker
              3
              But the triviality died on her lips as the truth had died.
              The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
              4
              The sound reduced everything else that was on their minds to triviality.
              Acts of faith
              5
              No sport links indignation and triviality to a greater degree than golf.
              The Guardian
              1
              The other showed a middle-aged woman, almost beautiful in her ardent slightness.
              The Red Lily — Volume 03
              2
              But it was the very slightness of these bibelots that disorganised me.
              Certain Personal Matters
              3
              The very slightness, vagueness, of the memory gave it an added poignancy.
              The Reef
              4
              The figure was tall, and erred, perhaps, on the side of slightness.
              To-morrow?
              5
              With her slightness, her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
              In the night room: a novel
              Usage of puniness in English
              1
              Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.
              The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
              2
              She almost laughed at its puniness.
              Return of the Crimson Guard
              3
              Her Majesty admired the intelligent expression of both men and women, but was painfully struck with their puniness and paleness.
              Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
              Translations for puniness
              Puniness through the time