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meanness
synonyms for meanness
- avarice
- greed
- malice
- abjection
- baseness
- beastliness
- closeness
- corruptness
- covetousness
- debasement
- degeneracy
- degradation
- disrepute
- frugality
- infamy
- iniquity
- lowness
- malignity
- miserliness
- parsimony
- pettiness
- rapacity
- shamelessness
- sordidness
- stinginess
- unkindness
- unscrupulousness
- unworthiness
- wickedness
- churlishness
- contemptibleness
- ill temper
- knavishness
- smallmindedness
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How to use meanness in a sentence
The wife who tipped you off did sort-of the right thing in getting upset and calling the meanness to your attention.
Carolyn Hax: She’s tired of being a tongue-biter around a backbiter | Carolyn Hax | November 22, 2020 | Washington PostRather than feel guilt, people who have hurt us typically start to hate us - for reminding them of their own meanness.
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 | THE DAILY BEAST
It is “suspended from the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead.”
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 | THE DAILY BEASTHis meanness toward religious people was unbearably callous and smug.
Remembering the Real Genius of Christopher Hitchens, Not the Caricature | Lee Siegel | December 18, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTGreater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
Pearls of Thought | Maturin M. BallouWoman-like, she could advise and help to the end, but the meanness of the means revolted.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingIt was thrown by a very dirty lamp, and disclosed a small court of unutterable meanness and inconceivable smells.
The Garret and the Garden | R.M. BallantyneThere won't be a day, inside or out of it, that I won't run up against every damnable meanness that human nature is capable of.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThe truth is that their pride had, as extravagant pride often has, a close affinity with meanness.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
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