pettiness

  • 21magnanimous — I adjective above meanness, above pettiness, altruistic, beneficent, charitable, chivalrous, elevated, exalted, forgiving, free of pettiness, gallant, generous, great, handsome, high minded, honorable, illustrious, kind, largehearted, liberal,… …

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  • 22paltriness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. pettiness, irrelevance, triviality; see insignificance . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Contemptible unimportance: mconsiderableness, negligibility, negligibleness, pettiness, smallness, triviality, trivialness. See… …

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  • 23petty — pet|ty [ˈpeti] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: peti small ] 1.) a petty problem, detail etc is small and unimportant = ↑trivial ▪ petty squabbles ▪ petty restrictions 2.) unkind and caring too much about small unimportant things ▪ How …

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  • 24petty — [[t]pe̱ti[/t]] pettier, pettiest 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) You can use petty to describe things such as problems, rules, or arguments which you think are unimportant or relate to unimportant things. He was miserable all the time and… …

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  • 25contemptible — adj Contemptible, despicable, pitiable, sorry, scurvy, cheap, beggarly, shabby are comparable when they mean arousing or deserving scorn or disdain. Contemptible applies to whatever inspires such scorn or disdain for any reason however great or… …

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  • 26μικροτεχνία — μικροτεχνίᾱ , μικροτεχνία pettiness in art fem nom/voc/acc dual μικροτεχνίᾱ , μικροτεχνία pettiness in art fem nom/voc sg (attic doric aeolic) …

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  • 27μικροτεχνίας — μικροτεχνίᾱς , μικροτεχνία pettiness in art fem acc pl μικροτεχνίᾱς , μικροτεχνία pettiness in art fem gen sg (attic doric aeolic) …

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  • 28littleness — noun 1. the property of having a relatively small size • Syn: ↑smallness • Ant: ↑bigness, ↑largeness (for: ↑smallness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑lit …

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  • 29puniness — noun 1. the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous • Syn: ↑pettiness, ↑triviality, ↑slightness • Derivationally related forms: ↑puny, ↑trivial (for: ↑triviality), ↑ …

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  • 30slightness — noun 1. smallness of stature • Syn: ↑delicacy • Derivationally related forms: ↑slight • Hypernyms: ↑smallness, ↑littleness 2. the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous …

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