pettiness

Rather, he dishes up a seemingly endless stream of examples of pettiness, irritation, hypocrisy and awkwardness.

The pettiness could be no issue—photograph all of your children, rainbows, sunsets, and kittens.

Why turn a genuine good-news story into an expression of childish pettiness?

It represents instead a sorry reflection of the pettiness of current political debate in Washington.

And it makes the pettiness and obstinacy on display in the U.S. over these negotiations all the more unseemly.

We might read between the lines his noble love of mankind, his compassion for our helplessness, our mortality and pettiness.

And on these faces, there was a certain pettiness and coldness not observable on those of the poorer women.

But eventually some experience will reveal to them the pettiness of their estimate, and a readjustment of values is made.

Back they would come at night, and the terrible, narrow maelstrom of pettiness sucked them in.

Under cover of their primitive Christianity I never found more pettiness.