meanness

How To Use meanness In A Sentence

• This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.
• Of course, meanness is not toughness, and the right are anything but tough. Think Progress » VIDEO: The Extreme, Violent Rhetoric Of GOP Lawmakers
• All her meanness and prosaicness was forgotten, all her imperfections and shortcomings; it was home, the one tangible thing in the glittering emptiness of the spheres. Gulliver of Mars
• Scrooge has been immortalised in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit.
• I say this not out of hatred or meanness.
• They gave him a dig about his meanness.
• Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny. Dr T.P.Chia 
• Both are at one with a certain instinct of frugality, by which I do not mean meanness.
• There was a shade of meanness in her speech, and she spoke it so emphatically that for a moment he was not sure if she was telling the truth.
• Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness.