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Answer for the clue "Petty sergeant-major everyone resented ", 12 letters:
small-minded

Word definitions for small-minded in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. selfish, petty; constrained in thought, limited in scope of consideration, not mindful of the big picture.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The tone of the book is small-minded and intolerant. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As chairman of housing in Lambeth in the early 1970s, he was every inch the small-minded functionary. ▪ Believe it or not, but there are ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" [syn: petty ]

Usage examples of small-minded.

Maximus, scarcely taller than a dwarf, and I daresay there was much that was dwarflike about him, for his large head, overdeveloped torso, and short, spindly legs caused him to walk with a sort of swaying waddle that never failed to elicit snickers from the small-minded palace eunuchs as he passed.

He had taken her from the protection of her own people and brought her here among the bigoted, small-minded humans that were his own subjects.

Muncel was a vain, petty, small-minded, conniving cheat who could barely wield a sword and did not understand the concept of honor.

It is not merely a board of trustees or a body of legislators who must be converted to the justice of extending this right to women, but also the great masses of men, including the ignorant, the foreign-born, the small-minded and the vicious.

I will not bore you with a recitation of my own personal injuries suffered by the small-minded atti­.

Post-Miracle America isn't a pretty sight: it's small-minded, parochial, and reactionarily religious.