单词	pettiness
释义	pettiness /ˈpɛtɪnəs / noun [mass noun] 1Undue concern with trivial matters, especially of a small-minded or spiteful nature: the sheer pettiness of the officials was quite startling [count noun]: try to overlook insults and pettinesses... His was by no means the only example of academicians' pettiness. Every moment I spent within the city limits caused me to hate the pettiness of the townsfolk even more. Everything about her was grand, even her pettiness. 1.1Lack of importance or worth; triviality: these awesome moments lift us above the pettiness of the world... Twain's Puritan pessimism casts great doubt on humanity's ability to transcend the pettiness of human existence. Finally, someone out there saw beyond the pettiness. His sensibility transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
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