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meanness
Synonyms:
penuriousness, littleness, selfishness, baseness, smallness, illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidnessAntonyms:
nobleness, unselfishness, liberality, generousness, large-heartedness
Princeton's WordNet
beastliness, meannessnoun
the quality of being deliberately mean
Synonyms:
tightness, niggardliness, minginess, closeness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, beastliness, niggardnessmeanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closenessnoun
extreme stinginess
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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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Dictionary of English Synonymes
meannessnoun
Synonyms:
smallness, littleness, scantiness, slenderness, lowness, poverty, meagreness, poornessmeannessnoun
Synonyms:
abjectness, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, abasement, despicablenessmeannessnoun
Synonyms:
illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness, penuriousness
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#3925 | density | |
#4321 | concentration | |
#18006 | cruelty | |
#18908 | familiarity | |
#20144 | intimacy | |
#21758 | thrift | |
#38769 | selfishness | |
#39155 | closeness | |
#40994 | tightness | |
#56975 | constriction | |
#59430 | compactness | |
#70151 | parsimony | |
#78566 | nearness | |
#94458 | smallness | |
#94594 | stringency | |
#99321 | meanness | |
#146490 | pettiness | |
#166371 | baseness | |
#185823 | stuffiness | |
#244487 | littleness | |
#326183 | secretiveness |
How to use meanness in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
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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