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Meanings of
pettiness
in английском
каталонский
futilitat
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The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
triviality
slightness
puniness
каталонский
futilitat
Lack of generosity in trifling matters.
smallness
littleness
Синонимы
Examples for "
triviality
"
triviality
slightness
puniness
Examples for "
triviality
"
1
But space was a
triviality
in a place that didn't truly exist.
2
We all understand the
triviality
as well as the importance of music.
3
But the
triviality
died on her lips as the truth had died.
4
The sound reduced everything else that was on their minds to
triviality
.
5
No sport links indignation and
triviality
to a greater degree than golf.
1
The other showed a middle-aged woman, almost beautiful in her ardent
slightness
.
2
But it was the very
slightness
of these bibelots that disorganised me.
3
The very
slightness
,
vagueness, of the memory gave it an added poignancy.
4
The figure was tall, and erred, perhaps, on the side of
slightness
.
5
With her
slightness
,
her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
1
Out of his
puniness
and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.
2
She almost laughed at its
puniness
.
3
Her Majesty admired the intelligent expression of both men and women, but was painfully struck with their
puniness
and paleness.
Usage of
pettiness
in английском
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.
Other examples for "pettiness"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
pettiness
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
such pettiness
own pettiness
childish pettiness
hopeless pettiness
rise above pettiness
More collocations
Translations for
pettiness
каталонский
futilitat
fotesa
bagatel·la
trivialitat
Pettiness
through the time
Pettiness
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common