pettiness in the PONS Dictionary

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They disguise their unease behind petty arguments over meaningless details of grammar and pronunciation but are finally able to push past the pettiness and make love.
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He was perfectly disengaged from himself, fearlessly truthful and without pettiness of any kind.
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As a result of the animosity, a kind of pettiness grew between the two agencies.
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On many occasions on this site, negativity and pettiness seems to thrive.
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He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness.
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I find that one simple statement ends this pettiness.
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He thinks how much harder and less lucrative it is to run a shop than a pub: the pettiness of it all!
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With pettiness and further dispute, they abandoned every reform and went back to the original scheme of appointing three chiefs to lead and govern them.
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And he's not, not as understanding of my pettiness about that.
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At times the campaign was accused of pettiness.
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