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the quality or state of being unimportant
  • the astonishing pettiness of most of the things that she fusses over

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“Pettiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pettiness. Accessed 1 Aug. 2021.

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