meanness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
meanness (countable and uncountable, plural meannesses)
- (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
- This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison
- (countable) A mean act.
- 1908, The World's Work (volume 16, page 10497)
- There are enough meannesses in everyone — ourselves included — to make for us a contemptible world, if we select the meannesses and let our minds dwell upon them.
- 1908, The World's Work (volume 16, page 10497)
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the condition or quality of being mean
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a mean act
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References[edit]
- meanness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913