meanness

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Other psychopathic traits can also benefit people in certain careers: Meanness, for example, often shows itself as a lack of empathy.

From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2023

Meanness, social drama and unhappiness aren’t — or don’t have to be — all there is to life in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades.

From New York Times • May 2, 2020

Meanness is everywhere in “Anne with an E,” as if life in the rural Maritimes wasn’t hard enough without hissing and insults.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2017

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank.

From Time Magazine Archive

In short, if there are many Poets who would not have fallen into the Meanness of some of his Sentiments, there are none who could have risen up to the Greatness of others.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph