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
More broadly the play is a tart vivisection of human pettiness and venality, as one by one the characters’ prejudices, peccadilloes and blinkered views are exposed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
But in their darkest hour, when the most odious contestant seems inevitable, the Cady of the conclave asserts his presence to chastise his fellow cardinals for their pettiness.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
She liked Jennifer, liked her lack of pettiness, her tough-but-fair stance, her honesty.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
