"midget-minded" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more midget-minded [comparative], most midget-minded [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} midget-minded (comparative more midget-minded, superlative most midget-minded)
  1. (colloquial, derogatory) Small-minded, stupid. Tags: colloquial, derogatory
    Sense id: en-midget-minded-en-adj-NPCfMKdo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "1973 February 28, “The Destroyers Strike!”, editorial in The Advocate, number 106, quoted in Michael Bronski, Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility, South End Press (1984), →ISBN, page 148,\nThe midget-minded masochists among us, it seems, cannot bear even the slightest hint of progress toward law reform and justice for Gays."
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          "text": "1998, Charlotte Vale Allen, Matters of the Heart, Island Nation Press LLC, →ISBN, page 212,\n“ […] They’re the tedious little drones who refer, with fabricated ennui, to the tiresome habits of their midget-minded husbands. […] ”"
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          "text": "2006, Gordon L. Patzer, The Power and Paradox of Physical Attractiveness, Universal Publishers, →ISBN, page 123,\nWe respect people who “stand tall” or who possess “stature,” but we lower our expectations for the “midget-minded” or those with “Napoleon complexes” and castigate negative actions with promulgating biases about “stooping really low” or “belittling.”"
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