Find out the words and expressions that have the similar or opposite meaning to "petty" and "marginalize". On our first “date” after our twin daughters were born, my husband and I went to see the movie Toy Story. We enjoyed it, but afterward my husband asked, “Where was the dad?” At first, it seemed petty to criticize an entertaining family movie because of one ( )point. The more I thought about it, however, the more ( )an ( )it seemed. Not only was dad ( ), he ( ) — despite the fact that there was a baby in the family, so dad couldn't have been that long ( ). It was as if the ( ) — or ( ) — of a father is a ( ) detail, not even requiring an explanation.