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[ meen-nis ] / ˈmin nɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR meanness ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe state or quality of being mean. a mean act: to answer meannesses with forgiveness. Origin of meannessFirst recorded in 1550–60; mean2 + -ness Words nearby meannessmean length of utterance, mean lethal dose, mean life, mean line, meanly, meanness, mean noon, mean planet, mean proportional, means, mean sea level Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for meannessRather than feel guilt, people who have hurt us typically start to hate us - for reminding them of their own meanness. How to Be Smart on Twitter|Alain de Botton|November 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST The whole gag stinks of meanness—to Holly, to Kevin, to the mentally disabled community. ‘The Office’ Used to Be a Great Show. No, Really! See Proof (VIDEO)|Kevin Fallon|May 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST It is “suspended from the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead.” How Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ Is Taught in Schools|Anna Clark|October 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST Rich and poor despise each other, and all justify their meanness in the most appallingly self-serving ways imaginable. ‘The Casual Vacancy’ Review: J.K. Rowling Cuts Loose From Harry Potter|Malcolm Jones|September 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST
His meanness toward religious people was unbearably callous and smug. Remembering the Real Genius of Christopher Hitchens, Not the Caricature|Lee Siegel|December 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST Religion should never be associated in the mind of a child with injustice, cruelty, or any meanness. Dickens As an Educator|James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes If he were capable of such a meanness, was he to be trusted in anything else? Reginald Cruden|Talbot Baines Reed As for the question of meanness, that will never be considered for a moment. The Squire's Daughter|Silas K(itto) Hocking The government of China is one of fear; and it has produced the usual effects,—duplicity and meanness. Foot-prints of a letter carrier|James Rees And this was the brother whom he had been holding up to ridicule and accusing of meanness. Amos Huntingdon|T.P. Wilson
Words related to meannessavarice, malice, greed, closeness, disrepute, parsimony, wickedness, rapacity, corruptness, covetousness, frugality, infamy, degradation, malignity, debasement, baseness, iniquity, pettiness, degeneracy, unworthiness |