Small-minded
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Selfish, petty; constrained in thought, limited in scope of consideration, not mindful of the big picture.
"Dinwiddie was evidently actuated by the petty pique of a narrow and illiberal mind, impatient of contradiction, even when in error. . . . It may excite a grave smile at the present day to find Washington charged by this very small-minded man with looseness in his way of writing to him."
- 1 contemptibly narrow in outlook wordnet
Example
More examples"While small-minded, xenophobic or outrightly racist people falsely believe that only persons of Anglo-Saxon or German origin are to be considered Americans, the United States has long prided itself on being a so-called melting pot, embracing both its Indigenous population and immigrants who have settled there from elsewhere."
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