How to Use small-minded in a Sentence

small-minded

adjective

• All those small-hearted, small-minded people, there’s a hell for you.
  — Marlow Stern, Variety, 25 May 2026
• All those small-hearted, small-minded people, there's a hell for you.
  — Sharareh Drury, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026
• And among the small-minded, the idea of a female Bond remains unthinkable.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 15 July 2026
• But small-minded individuals, who happened to be blocking our path at any point in time, my goal was to get around them.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
• These are not small-minded accomplishments.
  — Michael Stepner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
• In Mohit’s telling, Laxman seems merely grubby and small-minded.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
• It was delivered with sneers, an ugly, small-minded few minutes in support of the sclerotic, disdainful of dynamic change.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026
• The momentum behind these ventures — the idea, unpalatable to many of us small-minded, provincial types, of taking domestic league matches abroad — remains strong.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
• The frustration that seethes through the show is often born of the disappointment that a form as quicksilver and astounding as songwriting can be yoked to small-minded and propagandistic ends.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
• Any negative pushback in this moment will be interpreted as a small-minded and eminently self-serving response that puts parochial party interests above the interests of the country.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
• But newspaper people ought to stand in solidarity with our broadcast brethren/competitors in this incredibly small-minded and grudging clash between the White House and the Washington press corps.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
• Stedman offers a heartfelt homage to the virtues of rural community and the natural beauty unique to Western Australia, as well as a critique of the strictures and dangers inherent in small-minded communities.
  — The Know, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
• But arguably the script by Jones and director Brunner might have been a skoosh more impactful if the small-minded townsfolk, clearly coded as bigoted MAGA types, weren’t quite so hateful with only a few exceptions.
  — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026