The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
Something of small importance.
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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 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.
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.
6 She wondered how a man like Mr. Casaubon would support such triviality .
7 Tragic triviality - the problem of how to cross a brook with a maid!
8 Ultimately insignificant it may be, but football remains a glorious triviality .
9 The first thing that strikes one in such definitions is their unutterable triviality .
10 Curiously enough, the very triviality of the phenomenon was beginning to impress George.
11 Social position as represented by the hectic triviality of the last few days?
12 The apparent triviality of his occupation, and his intentness upon it, amused Marian.
13 The unforeseeable had now occurred, something which reduced all else to mere triviality .
14 The dapper little man jerked his head as over a triviality .
15 All these plays preaching about virtue disgusted them by their triviality .
16 He had never renounced anything, and so his life was a mere triviality .
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