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Definition of Meanness
1. Noun. The quality of being deliberately mean.
Generic synonyms: Malevolence, Malevolency, Malice
Derivative terms: Beastly, Mean, Mean, Mean
2. Noun. Extreme stinginess.
Generic synonyms: Stinginess
Specialized synonyms: Littleness, Pettiness, Smallness, Miserliness
Derivative terms: Close, Mean, Mean, Mingy, Niggardly, Parsimonious, Parsimonious, Tightfisted, Tight
Definition of Meanness
1. n. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
Definition of Meanness
1. Noun. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. ¹
2. Noun. A mean act; as, to be guilty of a '''meanness'''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meanness
1. the state of being mean [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meanness
Literary usage of Meanness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Massachusetts Teacher by Massachusetts Teachers' Association (Founded 1845), Massachusetts Teachers Federation, Massachusetts Teachers' Association (1858)
"A TALK WITH MY BOYS ON meanness. BOYS, you may lay aside your books. ... But what
makes the meanness here. Deception? Agreed; only I should use the stronger ..."
2. Criminology by Arthur MacDonald, Arthur Mac Donald (1893)
"PURE meanness. THERE are very few who do not manifest the quality of ... The term "
pure meanness" is intended to be applied to those individuals who hate ..."
3. Lun-hêng by Chʻung Wang, Alfred Forke (1907)
"Poverty and meanness are what men dislike. If they cannot be obtained in the
proper way, they should not be avoided."1 The moaning is that men must acquire ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... Although the pang of humbled pride The place of jealousy supplied, Yet conquest,
by that meanness won He almost loathed to think upon, 834 Led him, ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... betrayed the meanness of their origin ; and the equestrian order was still in
possession of that great office, which commanded with arbitrary sway the ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"First amongst these we must count the disgrace and fall of Wolsey, hitherto the
only real check upon Henry's wilfulness. The incredible meanness of the ..."
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