pettiness

Example Sentences

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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

Brooks was arrested and told officers: "It was really just pettiness on the part of people - I know I shouldn't have done that, I shouldn't have done Photoshop."

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2025

And yes, in a paroxysm of pettiness, he renamed Mt.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2025

MedMen was so afraid of me and the pettiness and my vitriol that they overnighted us a check.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2024

Anyone but him, thought Lazlo, laughing a little at his own pettiness.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor