The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
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Examples for "pettiness "
Examples for "pettiness "
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.
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.
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