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Significados de pettiness em inglês

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futilitat

The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.

futilitat

Lack of generosity in trifling matters.

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Examples for "triviality"
Examples for "triviality"
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But space was a triviality in a place that didn't truly exist.
A nameless witch
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We all understand the triviality as well as the importance of music.
The new yorker
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But the triviality died on her lips as the truth had died.
The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
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The sound reduced everything else that was on their minds to triviality.
Acts of faith
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No sport links indignation and triviality to a greater degree than golf.
The Guardian
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The other showed a middle-aged woman, almost beautiful in her ardent slightness.
The Red Lily — Volume 03
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But it was the very slightness of these bibelots that disorganised me.
Certain Personal Matters
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The very slightness, vagueness, of the memory gave it an added poignancy.
The Reef
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The figure was tall, and erred, perhaps, on the side of slightness.
To-morrow?
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With her slightness, her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
In the night room: a novel
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Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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She almost laughed at its puniness.
Return of the Crimson Guard
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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
Uso de pettiness em inglês
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Voters were mystified by the pettiness, and the Liberals saw their chance.
The Guardian
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The horrible pettiness of it all, constituted the maddening sting of it.
The Debtor: A Novel
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Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.
The Conquest of Fear
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It is not the pettiness, but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 / A Magazin...
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There is freedom to be achieved from the pettiness of our lives.
The Chief End of Man
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There was no place for pettiness in the midst of such .
A kiss of shadows
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I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury.
The Magic Skin
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Donna Lee feels depressed, realizing that everywhere she is surrounded by pettiness.
The new yorker
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A little while, and she would be hating herself for her pettiness.
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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Her lot was lowly, mean, obscure, and filled with drudgery and pettiness.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 / Little J...
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Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness?
The Home and the World
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That night-thethought of my pettiness-myfoolish, selfish fears.-Oh , Iwaswrong!
Nobody's Man
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This is where all the pettiness of his character works for the good.
The Guardian
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His search after truth has destroyed in him all pettiness of personal ambition.
The Mirrors of Downing Street / Some Political Reflections by a ...
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It's time this pettiness is put aside and we move forward.
News.com.au
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All of her greed and pettiness was right on the surface.
The Girls
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