Pettiness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PETTINESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being petty
• undue concern with trivial matters, especially of a small-minded or spiteful nature
• lack of importance or worth; triviality
• The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
• narrowness of mind or ideas or views
• the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
• lack of generosity in trifling matters
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having secondary rank or importanc; minor, subordinate

Words related to PETTINESS

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Words that contain PETTINESS

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How to use PETTINESS in a sentence

• It is a slight compensation, that this very pettiness makes her chronicles of the age very vivid in details.
• But this incident, reminding me how dreary and limited that life was, served to excuse in my eyes the pettiness and poverty of the characters it had produced.
• All the pettiness and annoyance and silly fears of the past weeks seemed blotted out, and a new holy calm took the vacant place.
• But she is wife, His honour is her own, and she would hide From all the world, and even from herself, His pettiness and narrowness of soul.
• Maynard was too well-bred a man for any such pettiness as that.
• Who can help writing, sir, while Nature is so glorious, and man so wretched? One cannot but take refuge from the pettiness of the real in the contemplation of the ideal.
• The coldness and pettiness of his manner did not warm the hearts or expand the understandings of his hearers.
• She had never been conscious of such vastness, she was abashed by it, she was exalted by it, she knew a moment of acute shame for the pettiness of her personal grievances.
• Also he confided to her his envy of small-statured people, and told how it hurt him to go about showing the bigness of his body and hiding the pettiness of his soul.
• Little material necessities, almost ludicrous in their pettiness, forced her on.
• He had fled from discomfort, magnifying pettiness into tragedy.
• It is not that he himself has not shaken off the pettiness of the little village where he received his first impression of his fellow-man.
• These dignified and noble personages had the delightful pettiness of suspecting each other.
• Camille well knew the barrenness of that soul, the pettiness of that pride, to which she had justly applied the epithet of obstinate.
• England had to choose either the way of pettiness or of greatness.
• But at least I shall be there, my Renee, and in me you will find a heart which no social pettiness shall ever corrupt, a heart all your own.
• The keynote of your character is its freedom from all pettiness.
• But, thank God, we have both hearts generous enough to place our friendship beyond reach of such vulgar pettiness.
• Conventions, pettiness, foolish pride, waywardness, secret egotism, fell away from her.
• I have, rightly or wrongly, a notion of the chief cause of this pettiness in English patriotism of to-day, and I will attempt to expound it.
• The little episodes of politics that have given variety to my career have only shown me the baseness of human nature, and the pettiness of human ambition.
• The reader realizes the pettiness of the worldly wisdom which blocks the way of joy.
• If she were just to open the hatch she would be out of jealous instincts and the pettiness of a personal life.
• The remedy for the irregularity, pettiness, ill-health, and unserviceableness of modern woman seems to lie, therefore, along educational lines.
• I looked anxiously into the glass on my dressing-table, dreading to see a reflection of his pettiness.
• On the working side the life of the family has an evil record for pettiness and monotony, but much of this is due to wrong comparisons.
• Kipling is too much a true realist to make their selfishness and pettiness unbroken, unceasing.
• All the pettiness of life drops away and it becomes a great battle before the Lord.
• He had held himself above the pettiness of village life only to discover, as he admitted frankly, that he had been a conceited fool.
• And we must mutually and heroically refrain from utilizing the unrivalled opportunities for repartee and pettiness afforded by the possession of a common tongue.
• Seriously, not in any trivial wilfulness of retort, I accuse you of a narrowness and pettiness of understanding with regard to America.

Similar words containing PETTINES without suffix s

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