small-minded
Example Sentences
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Determined to give her niece a stable upbringing, Aunt Irene unhappily but dutifully left a comfortable life in Ohio to return to her small-minded hometown in the Deep South.
I counted on her small-minded interference in the day-to-day running of the school to keep attention diverted elsewhere, while I searched for the information I needed.”
From Literature
“I’m sure there are small-minded people in Manhattan, but our show just wasn’t focused on that part,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times
But it’s not just the small — and small-minded, and small-hearted — wealthy libertarian or right-wing elite.
From Salon
Indeed, the “very sleepy and small-minded” island off the coast of England, known for its beautiful coasts, isaltogether a grain of sand in the Channel, hidden underneath the mainland’s shadow.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
