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Definition of petty-minded in English: petty-mindedadjective Unduly concerned with trivial matters, especially in a spiteful or selfish way. petty-minded, cost-cutting tradesmen Example sentencesExamples - Recent public discourse also reveals ill-founded and petty-minded anxieties about the elderly.
- Puritanical and petty-minded folk blame him for the alleged moral collapse of British society in the 1960s and since.
- I can't believe people can be so petty-minded.
- There are petty-minded, mean-spirited people in the media who are continuing a miserable crusade against the company.
- He struck me as nothing more than a petty-minded bully: a jobsworth, revelling in the small but crucial power he had over the media.
- I have now got to go out and get a job at the age of 51 just because of some petty-minded individual sitting at a desk.
- If people are penny-pinching or petty-minded this week, naturally you won't hold back on letting them know it.
- These petty-minded, semi-literate, vengeful people now control a large part of the State's institutions and resources.
- If we make enough fuss, maybe companies who pursue such petty-minded bullying tactics will realise that they are in danger of damaging their brands.
- Our city council are a bunch of petty-minded small businessmen, trying to use the city council to cut their rates while boosting the value of their property investments.
Synonyms intolerant, illiberal, reactionary, conservative, ultra-conservative, conventional, parochial, provincial, insular, small-town, localist, small-minded, petty, close-minded, short-sighted, myopic, blinkered, inward-looking, narrow, hidebound, dyed-in-the-wool, diehard, limited, restricted, inflexible, dogmatic, rigid, entrenched, prejudiced, bigoted, biased, partisan, sectarian, discriminatory
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