pettiness
Example Sentences
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Without cameras or timely released transcripts or audio, moments of pettiness, score settling, or open contempt for colleagues or parties by the justices can, and have, gone almost entirely unnoticed.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Football's world governing body is not doing this out of pettiness.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
We know this because Charles Dance recites Michelangelo’s snidest journal passages throughout, bringing a welcome pettiness to an otherwise staid chapter of art history.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
It rises inside me, unabated by the dim pettiness of university politics or mind-numbing everyday rules.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
