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"ref": "1907, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Tyranny of Bad Journalism”, in Utopia of Usurers and other Essays",
"text": "[C]onsider the case of the solemn articles in praise of the men who own newspapers—men of the type of Cadbury or Harmsworth, men of the type of the small club of millionaires. . . . These few small-minded men publish papers to praise themselves.",
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"ref": "2007 February 1, Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, “Is Obama Black Enough?”, in Time, retrieved 2014-04-22",
"text": "That someone given the escape valve of biraciality would choose to be black, would see some beauty in his darker self and still care more about health care and public education than reparations and Confederate flags is just too much for many small-minded racists, both black and white, to comprehend.",
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"Selfish, petty; constrained in thought, limited in scope of consideration, not mindful of the big picture."
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"translations": [
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "drebnav",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "дребнав"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ograničen",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "ограничен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "pikkusieluinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "ahdasmielinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "mesquin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "kleingeistig"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "szűk látókörű"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "whakaaroiti"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "małostkowy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "mesquinho"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "méločnyj",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "ме́лочный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "mezquino"
}
]
}
],
"word": "small-minded"
}
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"text": "[C]onsider the case of the solemn articles in praise of the men who own newspapers—men of the type of Cadbury or Harmsworth, men of the type of the small club of millionaires. . . . These few small-minded men publish papers to praise themselves.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2007 February 1, Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, “Is Obama Black Enough?”, in Time, retrieved 2014-04-22",
"text": "That someone given the escape valve of biraciality would choose to be black, would see some beauty in his darker self and still care more about health care and public education than reparations and Confederate flags is just too much for many small-minded racists, both black and white, to comprehend.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "drebnav",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "дребнав"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ograničen",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "ограничен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "pikkusieluinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "ahdasmielinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "mesquin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "kleingeistig"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "szűk látókörű"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "whakaaroiti"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "małostkowy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "mesquinho"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "méločnyj",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "ме́лочный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "selfish; not mindful of the big picture",
"word": "mezquino"
}
],
"word": "small-minded"
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