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Definitions for Meanness
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. beastliness, meannessnoun

    the quality of being deliberately mean

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

    extreme stinginess

Wiktionary

  1. meannessnoun

    The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

    This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison

  2. meannessnoun

    A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.

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Wikipedia

  1. Meanness

    Meanness is a personal quality whose classical form, discussed by many from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas, characterizes it as a vice of "lowness", but whose modern form deals more with cruelty.

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  1. meanness

    Meanness refers to the quality or state of being unkind, spiteful, or malicious. It often involves cruelty, pettiness, stinginess, or a lack of generosity. It can also refer to low quality or poor condition of something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Meannessnoun

    the condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess

  2. Meannessnoun

    a mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Meanness in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Meanness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of 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:

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. Plato:

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

  5. Donald Trump:

    It could be my fault, i don't want to necessarily blame, but there's a great meanness out there that I'm surprised at.

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