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pettinesses

n. (plural of pettiness English)

Usage examples of "pettinesses".

It was a relief to visit their houses and escape the pettinesses and sexual jealousies which were starting to infect the other girls near to Jalila’s own age.

The light played gently in her mind, dispersing old night-shadows, pettinesses, the little, nagging memories of dreams.

Turing’s definition of artificial intelligence demands that thinking computers have all the same failings and pettinesses that real, live, flesh-and-blood life forms are prone to.

He knew all the grandeurs and pettinesses of a gurgling civilization, but he didn't know this commonality, this "link" his own kind talked about.