meanness
Noun
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Noun
meanness
- (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean#Etymology_2|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)
- Italian: grettezza, meschinità, taccagneria
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