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meanness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beastliness |
| Type of | malevolency, malice, malevolence |
| Derivation | mean |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | closeness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| Type of | stinginess |
| Has types | miserliness, littleness, pettiness, smallness |
| Derivation | mean |
Examples of meanness
meanness
The appropriate apology for this is for the meanness of what you said, that's it.
From the washingtonpost.com
Particularly exasperating, though, is the publisher's meanness with illustrations.
From the guardian.co.uk
When I was a little girl I saw that meanness in her eyes and was afraid of it.
From the nzherald.co.nz
You can't be showing broad favoritism and meanness, or you won't build a team.
From the usatoday.com
They must pretend to a cleansing meanness of spirit they cannot honorably sustain.
From the time.com
He further disgusted the populace by his meanness and dislike of pomp and display.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Now, it is time for Swinney to inject some meanness into the Clemson program.
From the thestate.com
Compensate star players, but don't show favoritism or meanness at the office.
From the usatoday.com
Typical older-brother stuff, sure, but there is a meanness to it that's off-putting.
From the delawareonline.com
- Beastliness: the quality of being deliberately mean
- Extreme stinginess
- Cruelty can be described as indifference to suffering, and even positive pleasure in inflicting it. If this is supported by a legal or social framework, then receives the name of perversion. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept.
- The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess; A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness
- A student was asked at lunch what he felt returning home after six years in europe. He looked thoughtful, then sounded sure: "Meanness," he said. "Americans have turned into a mean people." And I perceive it's true. ...
- A trait of all Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and other right-wingers who seek to dismantle our cherished welfare state programmes of dependency.
