meanness
[meen-nis]
Origin of meanness
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Contemporary Examples
Rather 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.
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.
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His meanness toward religious people was unbearably callous and smug.
Historical Examples
But he was a generous man and all meanness of spirit was foreign to his soul.
Ancient ManHendrik Willem van Loon
Still, I don't mind that, only as an indication of his meanness.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
There are depths of meanness in your character, Renny, that I never suspected.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
Oh, how you must have despised me for the folly, the meanness of my suspicions!
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
She despised herself for the meanness of her passion, and Joseph for its ill success.
Joseph Andrews Vol. 1Henry Fielding
Word Origin and History for meanness
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper