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meanness noun [ ˈmiːnnəs ]

• lack of generosity; miserliness.
Similar: miserliness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penury, illiberality, greed, avarice, acquisitiveness, stinginess, tight-fistedness, tightness, minginess, cheapness, nearness,
Opposite: generosity,
• unkindness, spitefulness, or unfairness.
• "all the hatred and meanness, despair and sorrow surrounding us"
Similar: nastiness, mean-spiritedness, spitefulness, disagreeableness, unpleasantness, unkindness,
• lack of quality or attractiveness; shabbiness.
• "the meanness of that existence"
Similar: squalor, squalidness, shabbiness, dilapidation, sordidness, seediness, sleaziness, insalubriousness, wretchedness, dismalness, dinginess, poverty, scruffiness, scuzziness, crumminess, grunginess, tackiness, grottiness,


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