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Recent Examples of small-minded Incremental development and half-measures got us into this problem; that small-minded thinking will not get us out of it. Zellnor Myrie, New York Daily News, 9 June 2025 Identify 5 specific behaviors, habits, or thought patterns that would seem ridiculous or small-minded to someone playing at a higher level. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025 The way that Pliny saw it, astrology was small-minded fatalism, in which people glommed onto meaningless symbols for a sense of identity. Maya Layne, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025 Their small-minded nature is justified through closeness, but really, everyone seems miserable, with their connections to Judaism existing in social standing only. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024 Clearly, the two men are supposed to represent competing visions of Britishness: the one tolerant and outward-looking, drawing on the country’s rich heritage as a way to move the culture forward, the other entitled and small-minded, invested in the past only as a tool of propaganda. Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024 This latest incident is yet another example of Trump’s small-minded, black-and-white thinking that denotes a simple mind unable to comprehend or consider policies that exist in the gray areas of governing. Robin Epley, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024 The customer base is more informed and to make small-minded temporary transactions based on the political climate is the wrong direction for any company. Rhett Buttle, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024 The latter consist of several cartoon-like locals with high levels of bigotry and stupidity — the kind of small-minded, provincial Frenchmen and women featured in hit Gallic comedies like Serial Bad Weddings or the Tuche series. Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for small-minded
Adjective
  • They’re also made with arch support and a toe box that’s not too narrow or crammed, per the brand, plus the rubber sole offers a nice cushioned platform with each step.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With Republicans holding only a narrow majority, the outcomes could shape the balance of power heading into 2026.
    Grace Sandman, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This week, in parochial and Christian schools across Chicago and the suburbs, schoolchildren filed into pews with their classmates to observe church services ahead of the school day.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Funded by political parties and subscribers, such papers were thoroughly partisan and parochial.
    Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The trial also resulted in five other convictions of hospital and provincial health officials for concealment and omission-of-duty counts, the Buenos Aires Times and Chequeado reported.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the injured were taken to Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre by air and land, a spokesperson for the provincial health organization Shared Health said in a statement to CNN.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Even if advised by a manufacturer, the marble cleaning solution should still be tested on a small, inconspicuous area before getting started.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Her list continues with small but frustrating oversights.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But Target’s response frustrated supporters of gay and transgender rights, who said the company caved to bigoted pressure.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Some were explicit, bigoted and violated xAI’s rules.
    Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Over the next 1,358 days, there would be just a handful of credible sightings of Phillips, mostly connected with petty crimes in nearby small towns.
    Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Nothing is too petty, too silly, too stupid, or too weird to be included.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The deficient vice of being open-minded is being narrow-minded.
    Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Knowledge-wise, science may be advancing, but, politically, its powers of persuasion are in retreat, in a moment defined, in many ways, by ignorance and narrow-minded grievance.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The structure is stale and insular, with glaring blind spots.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • When 17 children from one classroom inexplicably run out into the night, a frightened insular community starts pointing fingers at their young schoolteacher (Julia Garner) and the sole survivor, Alex (Cary Christopher).
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Small-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/small-minded. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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