Pettiness

(noun.) lack of generosity in trifling matters.

(noun.) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.

(noun.) narrowness of mind or ideas or views.

整理:马提

• But there was a branch house at the west end, and no pettiness or dinginess to give suggestions of shame. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The jealous pettiness that disfigures the earlier tribal ideas of God give place to a new idea of a god of universal righteousness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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