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Synonyms for meanness
mean·ness

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. meanness

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

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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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. 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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "meanness":

    pettiness, cruelty

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#59430compactness
#70151parsimony
#78566nearness
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#146490pettiness
#166371baseness
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#244487littleness
#326183secretiveness

How to use meanness in a sentence?

  1. President Trump:

    We see this horrible, horrible, radical group of Democrats. You see what’s happening right now, and they’re determined to take back power by any means necessary. You see the meanness, the nastiness. They don’t care who they hurt, who they have to run over to get power.

  2. Michelle Anthony:

    The more meanness they see being successful or rewarded in the home or in their environment, the more children will revert to those mean behaviors themselves when faced with challenging social situations.

  3. John Adams:

    It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

  4. Plato:

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

  5. 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.


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