How To Use Small-minded In A Sentence
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My friend was worried about the way this film would play for a small-minded and bigoted audience.
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I saw him as a small-minded pismire, and when he tried to yank, I gnawed chunks out of him.
Rogue Warrior
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They are just small-minded homophobes trying to rationalize their fear of people unlike themselves.
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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.
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This approach, while not pretty, has been effective; yet it is a mean, small-minded strategy crafted for placid times.
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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.
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The play simply confirms the view of the nation as having the mentality of snitchy small-minded individuals concerned about the liquor laws.
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You're just being parochial and -- you know -- small-minded.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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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.
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To think, or act, otherwise is to be as small-minded and as bigoted as those you many complain about.
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You breathed new life into this miserable old cavern, into a community of small-minded, mean-spirited people.
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But it sounded very parochial, very small-minded, very irrelevant.
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Help me Lord to work in harmony with my brothers and sisters in Christ, to rise above small-mindedness and to walk in victory!
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By 1978, however, he was gone, eased out by the small-minded, petty individuals who dominated the club's board at the time.
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I mean, if this were Wales say, or Scotland, I dare say I could rabbit away about small-minded, provincial parochialism.
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There are times when such enclaves are small-minded, doctrinaire, judgmental, and prejudiced to the extreme.
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So small-minded is this government that it is unable even to organise the bill to restrict docking of dogs' tails.
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I object to something which is conceited and small-minded; but which also has that kind of pertinacity which always belongs to lunatics.
The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
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But it sounded very parochial, very small-minded, very irrelevant.
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Every once in a blue moon, something will come along that is so immediately affecting and amazing that our usual sarcasm-laced tone just seems petty and small-minded.
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I assume it is easier for small-minded people to moan and complain about benefits than actually ask the questions which matter.
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Post-Civil-War America therefore seemed to exhibit the worst kind of small-minded, lacklustre parochialism, but it had coupled it with a loutish popularism.
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It seems to me that when a once great Tory Party is reduced to grubbing around in its opponents’ expenses to try and score points, it has indeed become small-minded and mean.
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As much as she tried to ignore the small-minded jealousy that surrounded her, it upset her a great deal.
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Think of how grey, introverted, small-minded and parochial Scotland can sometimes be.
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There are times when such enclaves are small-minded, doctrinaire, judgmental, and prejudiced to the extreme.
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As payback, this trashy movie treats them as small-minded provincials.
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'Lilliputian' applies equally well to any small-minded, petty obsession of the kind that Conservatives strive to rise above, so I'd still consider it a conservative term.
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They were horrible - greedy and interfering, and mean and small-minded.
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He plans his escape from the provincial small-minded perceptions of the immediate community.
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Think of how grey, introverted, small-minded and parochial Scotland can sometimes be.
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Let the good that he did live after him, and the evil be interred with the petty theses of small-minded philosophers.
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That was not the action of a small-minded or petty individual.
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Even in the advertising industry, it seems that you have to show small-minded, petty acts of vandalism to get noticed.
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In an aside, McLaren manages to both accept and deflect two weaknesses often associated with his work: “While some criticism is substantive — including a welcomed critique of the enciphered language of some academics and a challenge to radical educators to come up with concrete possibilities — much of it is small-minded and petty …” (p. 30).
A Review of Capitalists and Conquerors, and an exchange
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Leslie Joseph portrays the small-minded, priggish, self-satisfied spinster to a T.
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Thus there are some signs that we might get a week of eloquent dispute as opposed to small-minded and parochial bickering.
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But Gardaí who criticise the book are being small-minded and short-sighted.
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I wish small-minded, moronic people would stop trashing whole groups of people and places, just to make themselves feel superior.
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I guess the short-term fixated small-minded mentality of the average S*n reader has infested here as well.
The Guardian World News
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Not so for the small-minded largely tenured bullies that make up the professionally sensitive and always aggrieve advocacy wing of the NCA.
Balloon Juice » 2004 » November
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To use the occasion of his death to launch an attack on one aspect of his policy seems inappropriate, ill-timed, small-minded and tasteless.
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Post-Civil-War America therefore seemed to exhibit the worst kind of small-minded, lacklustre parochialism, but it had coupled it with a loutish popularism.
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And no political party should let itself sort of just kind of disintegrate into petty bickering and small-minded politics.
Remarks By The President At Dscc Event In New York
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Even in the advertising industry, it seems that you have to show small-minded, petty acts of vandalism to get noticed.
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In this way, religious believers who are accused of being closed-minded and small-minded, if not misguided souls, are actually more open-minded and large-minded because they are willing to admit, as Hamlet put it to Horatio, that "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
TEXAS FAITH: Misunderstanding (my) religion | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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Think of how grey, introverted, small-minded and parochial Scotland can sometimes be.
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He was small-minded enough to think that a subject overshadowed him, _nec pluribus impar_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
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For while the political implications are indeed large, the tactics employed by both sides have been depressingly small-minded.
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It is past time for us to leave behind our small-minded insularity and recognize that we are moving into a world in which we will have to learn to live with and respect people who are different from us.
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Anyway mustn't be small-minded, after all the credit WAS hers for his improved mood.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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Freshly out of rehab, Quirke begins drinking again and frankly, one can't blame him – there's his grim childhood on top of the daughter business (adumbrated here but detailed in the first two books), plus the fact that Dublin in the 50s was small-minded and stifling as well as foggy and soggy.
Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review
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We all experience times of feeling mightily right and dismissing dissent as small-minded pettiness.
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Let the good that he did live after him, and the evil be interred with the petty theses of small-minded philosophers.
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I mean, if this were Wales say, or Scotland, I dare say I could rabbit away about small-minded, provincial parochialism.
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disgusted with their small-minded pettiness
