pettiness

基本解释

But he must get around such pettiness.
但他必须处理好这些琐碎杂事。
We tend to equate jealousy with pettiness and selfishness.
我们倾向于把嫉妒与卑鄙、自私相等同。
The negative pleasure one finds in work partakes of the poverty and banality of daily life, its pettiness.
否定快乐的人发现工作共有贫困与日常生活的乏味以及琐碎。

But this line is hard to square with Ms Kadeer's descriptions of Chinese brutality, mendacity and pettiness.
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This and other similar pettiness probably delayed my full embracing of the feminist label by a couple of years.
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It follows, then, that the appearance of pettiness, vindictiveness and defensiveness are just as bad as the real thing.
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