small-minded

How To Use small-minded In A Sentence

• Post-Civil-War America therefore seemed to exhibit the worst kind of small-minded, lacklustre parochialism, but it had coupled it with a loutish popularism.
• He plans his escape from the provincial small-minded perceptions of the immediate community.
• Think of how grey, introverted, small-minded and parochial Scotland can sometimes be.
• Let the good that he did live after him, and the evil be interred with the petty theses of small-minded philosophers.
• That was not the action of a small-minded or petty individual.
• Even in the advertising industry, it seems that you have to show small-minded, petty acts of vandalism to get noticed.
• In an aside, McLaren manages to both accept and deflect two weaknesses often associated with his work: “While some criticism is substantive — including a welcomed critique of the enciphered language of some academics and a challenge to radical educators to come up with concrete possibilities — much of it is small-minded and petty …” (p. 30). A Review of Capitalists and Conquerors, and an exchange
• Leslie Joseph portrays the small-minded, priggish, self-satisfied spinster to a T.
• Thus there are some signs that we might get a week of eloquent dispute as opposed to small-minded and parochial bickering.
• But Gardaí who criticise the book are being small-minded and short-sighted.