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small

adjective as in narrow-minded, nasty

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According to Grady of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, well-placed donations to smaller organizations can have exponential impacts.

Before I discard the plastic, I cut it up into tiny pieces so that small animals do not get caught in them and they don't try to eat them.

Over small plates, Renee talked about her love for food and Willie talked about his love for cooking.

So please think carefully before you demote small-talky situations to a priority below your laundry piles.

Castor addressed a small crowd from the stage before Coach Bruce Arians and General Manager Jason Licht offered enthusiastic — and colorful — comments of their own.

This can be especially helpful when you’re working with a small budget.

He offers expert small business SEO services and has headed various local SEO campaigns over the years.

Every environment is unsettling, even in the smallest of ways.

Watching over the smaller players, however, could prove tricky.

From Digiday

Trying to remember the way the air feels on your skin in an unfamiliar climate is the smallest of escapes.

From Time

Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.

And yes, someone has already called Spencer a “Small Fry,” har har.

It was seen by a small delegation of star-struck prelates and dignitaries who later described the film as “moving.”

The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

Inside the guild, men in caps and long gowns sit in twos, weaving together in small rooms.

Still, the security on the vessels—big or small—is nonexistent.

In this nervous city in an embattled country, even small explosions can have a big impact.

They had rarely seen their own fathers carry small children unless their mothers were ill.

For my friend, a small minority of JSwipe matches materialized into conversations, and none have materialized into dates.

Murders in the City of Angels have fallen by about half in the last 10 years: no small feat for such a big city.

“Angry Birds is a small fun game plus a lot of pointless garbage,” Smith tells me.

Big Perm worries that the lack of policing the “small fry” will lead to more crimes by “big fry.”

Even a relatively small 250-pound bomb could kill or injure friendly troops who are within 650 feet of the explosion.

But it is not only small airlines that reflect the laxity of the system.

Many of these are small operations that would never, in any case, fly beyond Indonesia.

Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border.

Veterans are a small minority of the population, as well, serving the greater whole.

Nestled in the hills are small market towns like Buleda, dominated by Baluch who make a living smuggling diesel and drugs.

They started as small groups that are big thorns in Iran's side now.

That rabidly excited community, apparently, was a small one.

The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.

Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.

He is perplexed and hindered by the lack of soldiers, but is doing his best with his small forces.

A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

Before the outlaw can comply with this small request the horn sounds again.

The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.

As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.

One frequently wishes to ascertain the specific gravity of quantities of fluid too small to float an urinometer.

Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.

The phloridzin test consists in the hypodermic injection of a small quantity of phloridzin.

A few small rocks of some soft stone may be added, and in between these the Ferns are planted.

On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.

In chronic interstitial nephritis it is small—frequently no more than a trace.

A small contingent of the members hurried off to applaud the successful comic opera of the hour.

It is small in cloudy swelling from toxins and drugs, and variable in renal tuberculosis and neoplasms.

With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.

Now, he chose a small table in a corner of the balcony, close to the glass screen.

The small grain crops had been burned to a crisp, and disaster hung over the land.

In 1603 it was ordered that one quart of best ale, or two of small, should be sold for one penny.

A small boy of three years and nine months on receiving from his nurse the familiar order, "Come here!"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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