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synonyms for mean
- hard
- vile
- dangerous
- malicious
- callous
- vicious
- evil
- ugly
- dirty
- nasty
- rough
- touch
- sinking
- malign
- sour
- down
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- churlish
- contemptible
- despicable
- difficult
- disagreeable
- dishonorable
- formidable
- hard-nosed
- ignoble
- ill-tempered
- infamous
- knavish
- lousy
- perfidious
- pesky
- rotten
- rugged
- scurrilous
- shameless
- snide
- treacherous
- troublesome
- unfriendly
- unpleasant
- unscrupulous
- vexatious
- liverish
- low-down and dirty
- the lowest
- miserable
- vulgar
- petty
- humble
- limited
- plebeian
- menial
- base
- low
- hack
- obscure
- narrow
- ordinary
- inferior
- common
- beggarly
- contemptible
- ignoble
- ineffectual
- insignificant
- lowly
- mediocre
- modest
- paltry
- pitiful
- run-down
- scruffy
- second-rate
- seedy
- servile
- shabby
- sordid
- squalid
- tawdry
- undistinguished
- wretched
- déclassé
- second-class
- unwashed
- proletarian
- down-at-heel
- lowborn
- represent
- suggest
- spell
- say
- portend
- involve
- indicate
- imply
- promise
- determine
- herald
- argue
- name
- purport
- attest
- express
- betoken
- intimate
- denote
- foreshadow
- connote
- foretell
- adumbrate
- augur
- import
- symbolize
- presage
- allude
- designate
- drive at
- stand for
- add up
- allude to
- hint at
- point to
- speak of
- tell the meaning of
- touch on
- propose
- make
- aim
- design
- expect
- want
- anticipate
- plan
- desire
- resolve
- fit
- fate
- wish
- direct
- predestine
- preordain
- contemplate
- purpose
- suit
- aspire
- destine
- match
- set out
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- extreme
- noble
- generous
- happy
- clean
- agreeable
- upright
- decent
- good
- safe
- gentle
- sympathetic
- sensitive
- nice
- mild
- polite
- compassionate
- unselfish
- cheerful
- pleasing
- moral
- friendly
- kind
- pleasant
- extreme
- sympathetic
- nice
- generous
- uncommon
- high
- superior
- elevated
- noble
- rich
- polite
- compassionate
- unselfish
- kind
- extraordinary
- abnormal
- moral
- honest
- aristocratic
- unrestricted
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- barbarian
- barbaric
- base
- bawdy
- blue
- boorish
- brutish
- cheap
- churlish
- common
- crass
- crude
- dirty
- earthy
- filthy
- foul
- foul-mouthed
- gross
- gruff
- ill-bred
- immodest
- impolite
- improper
- impure
- incult
- indelicate
- inelegant
- loutish
- low
- lowbred
- lowdown and dirty
- mean
- nasty
- obscene
- off-color
- offensive
- raffish
- raunchy
- raw
- ribald
- rough
- roughneck
- rude
- scatological
- smutty
- tacky
- tasteless
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- uncouth
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- unpolished
- unrefined
- vulgar
- vulgarian
- avaricious
- canny
- chary
- circumspect
- close
- closefisted
- cost-effective
- curmudgeonly
- efficient
- frugal
- meager
- mean
- methodical
- miserly
- money-saving
- niggardly
- on the rims
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penny-wise
- penurious
- practical
- provident
- prudent
- prudential
- saving
- spare
- sparing
- stingy
- thrifty
- tight
- time-saving
- unwasteful
- watchful
- work-saving
- addressing
- angling
- aspiring
- attempting
- casting
- concentrating
- contemplating
- coveting
- designing
- directing
- endeavoring
- essaying
- fixing
- focusing
- intending
- leveling
- meaning
- planning
- proposing
- purposing
- setting one's sights on
- sighting
- slanting
- steering
- striving
- targeting
- training
- trying
- wanting
- wishing
- zero in on
- zooming in
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