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
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
He set aside “Up to Me,” a song about artistic ambition versus small-mindedness, and he replaced lines from an early take of “Idiot Wind” that complained, “Imitators steal me blind.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2018
What drove Kennedy was a hatred of small-mindedness, ignorance, obstructionism, and intimidation—which, in his view, were displayed by no organization more proudly than the Ku Klux Klan.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
