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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. 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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How to use meanness in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. Plato:

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  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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