Crossword-Solution: PETTINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pettiness | n. | The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PETTINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| smallness | 1 answer |
| the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | 1 answer |
| meanness | 9 answers |
| triviality | 18 answers |
| nullity | 29 answers |
| Zilch | 36 answers |
| unimportance | 55 answers |
| inessential | 63 answers |
| Trifle | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMEAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PETTINESS (5)
When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.
During his angry outbursts venting frustration with Homosoto's pettiness, Perky supported him fully, unaware of his ultimate goal.
Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.
Glennard did himself injustice, it was from the unexpected discovery of his own pettiness that he chiefly suffered.
But I have made at worst some neat, precise and joyous little tales which prevaricate tenderly about the universe and veil the pettiness of human nature with screens of verbal jewelwork.
Quotes with PETTINESS (3)
Syl Anagist's assimilation of the world had been over a century before I was ever made; all cities were Syl Anagist. All languages had become Sylanagistine. But there were none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them - even if, in truth, their victims couldn't care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they…
If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who wouldn't allow me even a tiny chance of escape.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know…