meanness
IPA: mˈinnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
- (countable) A mean act.
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Examples of "meanness" in Sentences
- As I use to say, meanness is becoming commonplace for our people.
- My meanness is usually restricted to just not spending if at all possible!
- Of course, meanness is not toughness, and the right are anything but tough.
- 'Ah! Don Lorenzo, you forget in that pompous title the meanness of my origin.
- In reading these blogs it seems that a lot more meanness is comeing from the Obama supporters.
- It may be that you just happened to run into a few people who think meanness is the way to go.
- I suspect that there's a mindset behind it of either desperation or just plain meanness that leads to this.
- At this he affected to be perfectly unconcerned, and merely protested against what he called the meanness of trying to fix the charge on him.
- I thought you had been above such meanness, or, I promise you, I should never have borrowed your half-guinea, "added Holloway; and he left his unfortunate creditor to reflect upon the new ideas of _meanness_ and _spirit_, which had been thus artfully thrown out.
- It is also unfit that any human being possessed of this precious and sacred treasure of human life should live in meanness, in penury, in hardship, in torment, unless these things be perceivably for disciplinary or retaliatory purposes imposed upon that life by the official sentence of organized society.
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