pettiness
pe tee nuhs
- n narrowness of mind or ideas or views
- n the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
- n lack of generosity in trifling matters
- No matter how well you think you understand what goes on in adolescent life, it can be shocking to read first-hand accounts of the jealousy, pettiness, meanness and general anxiety .
- In fact, the economic crisis facing the country demands that the Obama Administration move past the pettiness of race matters with the haste of a paramedic driving an ambulance.
- Stories about her pettiness are legion: the time in Boston she telephoned the management of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to complain that the Ritz- Carlton's room service had put .