meanness

mean·ness  (mnns)

n.

1. The state of being inferior in quality, character, or value; commonness.

2. The quality or state of being selfish or stingy.

3. A spiteful or malicious act.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	meanness - the quality of being deliberately mean beastliness malevolency, malice, malevolence - the quality of threatening evil
	2.	meanness - extreme stinginess minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, tightfistedness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightness, closeness stinginess - a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money littleness, pettiness, smallness - lack of generosity in trifling matters miserliness - total lack of generosity with money

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meanness

noun

1. miserliness, parsimony, stinginess, tight-fistedness, niggardliness, selfishness, minginess (Brit. informal), penuriousness This careful attitude to money can border on meanness.

2. pettiness, degradation, degeneracy, wretchedness, narrow-mindedness, shabbiness, baseness, vileness, sordidness, shamefulness, scurviness, abjectness, low-mindedness, ignobility, despicableness, disgracefulness, dishonourableness Their meanness of spirit is embarrassing.

3. malice, hostility, bad temper, rudeness, nastiness, unpleasantness, ill temper, sourness, unfriendliness, maliciousness, cantankerousness, churlishness, disagreeableness There was always a certain amount of cruelty, meanness and villainy.

4. shabbiness, squalor, insignificance, pettiness, wretchedness, seediness, tawdriness, sordidness, scruffiness, humbleness, poorness, paltriness, beggarliness, contemptibleness the meanness of our surroundings

Proverbs
"Do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar"

Translations

meanness [ˈmiːnnɪs] N

1. (= stinginess) → tacañería f, mezquindad f

2. (= nastiness) → maldad f, vileza f

3. (= humbleness) → humildad f

meanness [ˈmiːnnɪs] n

(= stinginess) → avarice f

(= nastiness) → méchanceté f

(literary) (= poverty) → dénuement m

meanness

n

(esp Brit: = miserliness) → Geiz m, → Knauserigkeit f

(= unkindness, spite) → Gemeinheit f

(= baseness: of birth, motives) → Niedrigkeit f

(= shabbiness) → Schäbigkeit f, → Armseligkeit f

(= viciousness) → Bösartigkeit f; (of look) → Gehässigkeit f, → Hinterhältigkeit f; (of criminal) → Niedertracht f

meanness [ˈmiːnnɪs] n (see adj) → avarizia, spilorceria, meschinità f inv, cattiveria, perfidia

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meanness [ˈmiːnnɪs] n (see adj) → avarizia, spilorceria, meschinità f inv, cattiveria, perfidia