Synonyms for meanness
mean·ness

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1. meanness

   Synonyms:
   penuriousness, littleness, selfishness, baseness, smallness, illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness

   Antonyms:
   nobleness, unselfishness, liberality, generousness, large-heartedness

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1. beastliness, meannessnoun

   the quality of being deliberately mean

   Synonyms:
   tightness, niggardliness, minginess, closeness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, beastliness, niggardness

2. meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closenessnoun

   extreme stinginess

   Synonyms:
   nearness, tautness, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching, constriction, parsimony, closeness, stringency, stuffiness, niggardliness, denseness, concentration, tightfistedness, beastliness, familiarity, compactness, secretiveness, minginess, tightness, intimacy, niggardness, density

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1. • Malevolence

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1. meannessnoun

   Synonyms:
   smallness, littleness, scantiness, slenderness, lowness, poverty, meagreness, poorness

2. meannessnoun

   Synonyms:
   abjectness, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, abasement, despicableness

3. meannessnoun

   Synonyms:
   illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness, penuriousness

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1. List of paraphrases for "meanness":

   pettiness, cruelty

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How to use meanness in a sentence?

1. Plato:

   Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

2. George Sand:

   Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

3. Al Hunt:

   Donald Trump's Donald Trump, not because I disagree with Donald Trump policies -- though I disagree with many -- but I think there is a carelessness, a recklessness, meanness and, I think, corruption.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

5. Michelle Anthony:

   So trying out meanness is not something we can or should eradicate, it's normal to want to feel powerful and to exert influence on your environment. It's healthy. What is unhealthy is when the means by which a child does that is at the social expense of another.