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small-minded

[ smawl-mahyn-did ]

adjective

  1. selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.


small-minded

adjective

  1. narrow-minded; petty; intolerant; mean
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Derived Forms

  • ˌ-ˈԻ, adverb
  • ˌ-ˈԻԱ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • -ԻĻ· adverb
  • -ԻĻ·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of small-minded1

First recorded in 1840–50
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Most of this material doesn't seem political, but it does encourage a form of small-minded narcissism, with the relentless focus on the self.

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Biden and other politicians can also be criminals, as well as fools, who are incompetent, small-minded, and pompous.

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A question for the future: The Mitchell court-martial was an act of small-minded pettiness that must be seen for what it was: an exercise in grand theater.

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So it was like, you gotta get out because St. Louis is so small-minded.

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It’s not exactly breaking news that Trump’s delusional, conspiratorial rants are grounded in the most depressing and small-minded kinds of bigotry rather than facts, and that his core audiences like it that way.

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