The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
Lack of generosity in trifling matters.
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Examples for "smallness "
1 In a way, the smallness of the room added to its luxury.
2 He could not endure his own smallness in the face of immensity.
3 That which added to the cruelty was, the smallness of the fire.
4 At the knees a pair of hands hung, infantile in their smallness .
5 Nor was the smallness of the work any objection to its security.
1 God measures the greatness of happiness by the littleness of the happy.
2 It left nothing common, neither the motives nor the littleness of men.
3 It was Wilf's youngness and littleness in the face of that immensity.
4 Then reflect on the nature of matrimony, with its littleness and cares.
5 It discovers a want of heart, and an infinite littleness of soul.
1 Voters were mystified by the pettiness , and the Liberals saw their chance.
2 The horrible pettiness of it all, constituted the maddening sting of it.
3 Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness .
4 It is not the pettiness , but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque.
5 There is freedom to be achieved from the pettiness of our lives.
6 There was no place for pettiness in the midst of such .
7 I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury.
8 Donna Lee feels depressed, realizing that everywhere she is surrounded by pettiness .
9 A little while, and she would be hating herself for her pettiness .
10 Her lot was lowly, mean, obscure, and filled with drudgery and pettiness .
11 Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness?
12 That night-thethought of my pettiness - my foolish , selfish fears.-Oh , Iwaswrong!
13 This is where all the pettiness of his character works for the good.
14 His search after truth has destroyed in him all pettiness of personal ambition.
15 It's time this pettiness is put aside and we move forward.
16 All of her greed and pettiness was right on the surface.
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