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Перевод: pettiness

[существительное]
мелочность ; низость

Тезаурус:

1. After three days of sniping and gratuitous pettiness, they allow Matty the very beginning of June or the very end.
2. All greed and power and pettiness.
3. Instead of looking for new approaches that could galvanize the industry to deal with its problems, the call went up for a leader who would, in the words of one Bioscope editorial, be able "to make order out of disorder, to organize agreement and concord with a strong hand, tactfully and helpfully, yet with a stern repression of pettiness and ignoble motives.".
4. All "well-meaning" citizens were said to have recognized "wholly, joyfully, and thankfully the superhuman greatness of the Fhrer and his work", and, confronted with this "greatness", "all pettiness and grumbling is silenced".
5. Nevertheless, the decision was enough to make Labour's "sister party" bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP's pettiness.
6. To the charge of pettiness, the organization - as elsewhere - had a reply.
7. Of granite, which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows, he wrote: "Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad, bold and massive, rather than a small or delicately undercut character, and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish."
8. Blaming the organization for its pettiness had major costs.
9. It did Thom himself little good but it exacerbated the inarticulate anger of other officers at the pettiness of the regulations in the face of the array of temptations.
10. Not only did the schoolmaster make him move, but he instructed him to transfer all his personal effects from the luggage rack above the seat to the rack on the other side, which takes a particular kind of pettiness, don't you think.
11. The pettiness over uniform repairs epitomized the way control by the Chief pervaded the working - and the non-working - day.
12. The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions, of the atmosphere of contempt at these places, of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers (ECOs) and interpreters, and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer.
13. He is a universal being and is therefore above the pettiness of deception; he loves all things and he knows all things love him.