pettiness

How To Use pettiness In A Sentence

• Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Mr. Romney, fired back today in a statement: This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee. Huckabee’s Choice Words for Romney - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
• Learning how to rise above the pettiness, disagreements, and judgements establishes in you a love for all humanity.
• Don't you think in a lot of these cases it is just as much a case of hates, jealousness and pettiness on the part of directors, sponsors and producers and it is being blamed on low ratings? Post-gazette.com - News
• We all experience times of feeling mightily right and dismissing dissent as small-minded pettiness.
• Whitman hoped that the tedium and pettiness of his senior years would not infect his poetry.
• Consider, too, how a holiday of action would disenthral the writer from the pettiness of cliques and coteries, with their pedantic atmosphere and false perspectives. Without Prejudice
• For pettiness, for triviality; for all the little things that had vexed him. EVERVILLE
• disgusted with their small-minded pettiness
• I sometimes think it must be some sinister conspiracy designed just to freak men out with the sheer, dazzling pettiness of it.
• So it is either a kind of pettiness one would expect more from a John McCain than an actual adult, or it is John Bolton-esque contempt for diplomacy with those “godless commies,” or, probably, a combination of the two? And I Blame You | ATTACKERMAN