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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
small-minded
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 actually a few small-minded people in the Kings organization who resented Gretzky.
▪ Grimes's misanthropy is a proper match for the Borough's small-minded respectability.
▪ I've told you this before, but you are a small-minded lot, really.
▪ Well, small-minded politicos and big-moneyed utility interests made sure this sun-drenched region never fully developed its most sensible energy alternative.
Wiktionary
small-minded

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

WordNet
small-minded

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.