small-minded
adjective
selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.
small-mindedness
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a word derived from
small-minded.
Example Sentences
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Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
At first she’s certain that she can help change things for the better — ameliorate the crudeness, the small-mindedness, the lack of culture, of beauty.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
If I'm attacking anything, it's the niche-marketed banality, stupidity and small-mindedness of our age, which has conjured up and nourished someone like McNaughton as its accidental but inevitable antithesis.
From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2020
Perhaps it’s because, whatever small-town small-mindedness might exist in the nonfictional world, forgiveness is built into these stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2019
Cursing herself for her small-mindedness even as she was powerless before it.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
