small-minded

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Sure, your boss may be small-minded, two-faced, spineless, and technically inept.

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  • Then I realized at a certain point that whoever is small-minded enough to write me off for that is someone I don't want to work for. —  Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
  • Our ridiculously high energy costs have regularly been raised by companies as a bar against doing business here, yet our Green ministers were far more interested in their own self-serving, small-minded Green Party agenda. —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • "It's a Wonderful Life" is a terrifying, asphyxiating story about growing up and relinquishing your dreams, of seeing your father driven to the grave before his time, of living among bitter, small-minded people. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • "The small-minded divisive politics, the us-versus-them mentality, the city-versus-suburb mentality, the black-versus-white mentality has held us back as a city, and frankly, held this region back for years," Cockrel said Wednesday.
  • Slamming autoworkers with piddly, small-minded BS will not help. —  CTV News RSS Feed
 

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