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petty-mindedadjectiveUnduly concerned with trivial matters, especially in a spiteful or selfish way: petty-minded, cost-cutting tradesmen...- Recent public discourse also reveals ill-founded and petty-minded anxieties about the elderly.
- If people are penny-pinching or petty-minded this week, naturally you won't hold back on letting them know it.
- I have now got to go out and get a job at the age of 51 just because of some petty-minded individual sitting at a desk.
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