midget-minded

English

Adjective

midget-minded (comparative more midget-minded, superlative most midget-minded)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) Small-minded, stupid.
   • 1949, John Joseph O'Neill, Engineering the New Age, I. Washburn, page 289,

     Because of this situation we are producing year after year crops of intellectually-dwarfed and midget-minded graduates whose limitations make them easy victims for compliance with a continuation of the system.

   • 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,

     The midget-minded masochists among us, it seems, cannot bear even the slightest hint of progress toward law reform and justice for Gays.

   • 1998, Charlotte Vale Allen, Matters of the Heart, Island Nation Press LLC, →ISBN, page 212,

     “ […] They’re the tedious little drones who refer, with fabricated ennui, to the tiresome habits of their midget-minded husbands. […] ”

   • 2006, Gordon L. Patzer, The Power and Paradox of Physical Attractiveness, Universal Publishers, →ISBN, page 123,

     We 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.”