| But his vanity, pettiness and egocentrism exasperated even his closest friends. |
| Whatever the motivations of those who supported his ennoblement, however, there was no disguising the pettiness of those who opposed it. |
| They create a portrait of a rural community filled with pettiness and cruelty. |
| An intermittent pettiness about where throw-ins and free kicks are taken from that defies logic is to be expected. |
| The council is inefficient and bogged down in its own process of faction fighting and pettiness. |
| Like many modern Irish writers, Beckett resented the pettiness, prejudice and prudery of his country of birth. |
