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1. rareIn a small way.

   Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself.

   2007 October 28, Richard Ford, “The Noise Is Killing Me”, in New York Times

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   The name of Worstead, a village some ten miles distant from the city, was, indeed, as its name may testify, the birthplace of an important branch of the trade in England; now it is a smally populated, little known spot...

   1890, HM Factory Inspectorate, Annual report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops