This and other similar pettiness probably delayed my full embracing of the feminist label by a couple of years.
It follows, then, that the appearance of pettiness, vindictiveness and defensiveness are just as bad as the real thing.
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They do not have any time for the pettiness, the smallness, the posturing.
Because above all possible pettiness, this is a place where stars are born and we are all in this together.
Influential people within the party machine had been dismayed by what they saw as Mr Duncan Smith's pettiness and insecurity.
They're tired of the partisanship and the shouting and the pettiness.
Having come of age in serious times, you all don't have a lot of patience for pettiness and bickering and the worn divisions of the past.
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The alternative could too easily be pettiness, fudge and cynicism.
Lord help us to turn from callousness to sensitivity, from hostility to love, from pettiness to purpose, from envy to contentment, from carelessness to discipline, from fear to faith.
Tory Penny Mordaunt said the Lib Dems were motivated by "spite, pettiness and self-interest", accusing them of making "flirtatious glances" to Labour as potential coalition partners following the 2015 poll.
It has instead represented the more recent impulse in our politics to sweep uncomfortable events out of the news, move forward in the Twitter news cycle, or grind it down into no more than partisan pettiness.
To the outsider's eye these complaints tend to display a high degree of pettiness and conceit, as with the applicant for a medical job with the commission who argued that his non-hiring was explicable only by a prejudice on the commission's part against Swedish medical qualifications.
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