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small-minded

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ADJECTIVE
  1. contemptibly narrow in outlook
    disgusted with their small-minded pettiness
    petty little comments

How To Use small-minded In A Sentence

  • My friend was worried about the way this film would play for a small-minded and bigoted audience.
  • I saw him as a small-minded pismire, and when he tried to yank, I gnawed chunks out of him. Rogue Warrior
  • They are just small-minded homophobes trying to rationalize their fear of people unlike themselves.
  • To wit: ever since I've been working here on my own devoid of any human contact, I've been turning into a small-minded tight-fisted anal-retentive mentalist.
  • This approach, while not pretty, has been effective; yet it is a mean, small-minded strategy crafted for placid times.
  • This is to be welcomed because it marks a setback for the backward-looking and small-minded, illiberal and anti-democratic outlook that has come to define the radical rump.
  • The play simply confirms the view of the nation as having the mentality of snitchy small-minded individuals concerned about the liquor laws.
  • You're just being parochial and -- you know -- small-minded. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • It's nice to have a mayor who has enough confidence in people to ask them to be serious about their city and know that the answers they give will be edifying, not small-minded.
  • To think, or act, otherwise is to be as small-minded and as bigoted as those you many complain about.
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