| 词汇 | pettily |
| 释义 | pettily adverb disapprovinguk /ˈpet.əl.i/ us /ˈpet̬.əl.i/ in a way that gives too much attention to things that are not important: I should be able to invite whoever I want to my party without other people pettily getting upset. Why would anyone behave in a such a pettily spiteful manner? They pettily argued that their actions were not strictly forbidden by the law. She found the people in her new town were just as pettily provincial as the people she had been trying to escape from. I can pettily enjoy the thought of my former rival's disgrace. Narrow-minded be set in your waysidiom be wearing blindersidiom be wearing blinkersidiom blinker blinkered closed-minded intolerantly myopia myopic myopically narrow-minded narrow-mindedly narrow-mindedness prissy provinciality provincially prude prudish unreconstructed unthinking Related wordpetty |
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