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.
His meanness toward religious people was unbearably callous and smug.
Religion should never be associated in the mind of a child with injustice, cruelty, or any meanness.
If he were capable of such a meanness, was he to be trusted in anything else?
As for the question of meanness, that will never be considered for a moment.
The government of China is one of fear; and it has produced the usual effects,—duplicity and meanness.
And this was the brother whom he had been holding up to ridicule and accusing of meanness.
