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pettily
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˈpet.əl.i/ us /ˈpet̬.əl.i/
in a way that gives too much attention to things that are not important:
I should be able to invite whoever I want to my party without other people pettily getting upset.
Why would anyone behave in a such a pettily spiteful manner?
They pettily argued that their actions were not strictly forbidden by the law.
She found the people in her new town were just as pettily provincial as the people she had been trying to escape from.
I can pettily enjoy the thought of my former rival's disgrace.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Narrow-minded
be set in your waysidiom
be wearing blindersidiom
be wearing blinkersidiom
blinker
blinkered
closed-minded
intolerantly
myopia
myopic
myopically
narrow-minded
narrow-mindedly
narrow-mindedness
prissy
provinciality
provincially
prude
prudish
unreconstructed
unthinking
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