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  • noun Plural form of meanness.

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Examples

  • It is a pity that wealth does not oftener bring such "meannesses" in its train.

    Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821

  • Bonnie witnesses the small meannesses people use to quell, to dampen their own internal fires.

    check-out at the super saver center Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo 2011

  • I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she is -- her weaknesses, and meannesses, and immodesties, and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet, and her eyes that have never seen the stars.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • Plus -- duh -- you're more likely to foolishly inflame the situation with insults and petty meannesses.

    Karen Salmansohn: 10 Tips for How Not to Be a Jerk During Conflict 2009

  • You can see the little meannesses -- his and those of others who were taunting him and thought of him as a usurper.

    The Way It Really Was 2008

  • Just like all the other petty meannesses and minor transgressions of day-to-day life.

    Personal Demons Stacia Kane 2008

  • As a great man gets bigger and broader he drops a lot of his prejudices and meannesses, and his heart, like that of St. Francis, goes out in sympathy to all manner of men, to the birds of the air, and even to inanimate nature, until he gets to feel in harmony with the universe.

    Impersonality James Gurney 2008

  • Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth with their own miserable meannesses and littlenesses, greatly shocked me.

    George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

  • The life of this man, great as he was, was marred by many meannesses, to use the expression employed by his enemies, who were anxious to diminish his glory, but which it would be more proper to call apparent contradictions.

    The Atheist's Mass 2007

  • Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth with their own miserable meannesses and littlenesses, greatly shocked me.

    George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

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