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.
That defines her character: the loneliness, the longing, the planning, and the meanness too.
Nothing but meanness is stopping us having homes like the Jetsons.
Unable to find the meanness in themselves to give it zero stars, movie critics cling to the illusion that there must be something good about it.
A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature. William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Kindness is a spiritual gentleman. Meanness is a spiritual rascal. Dr T.P.Chia
He is above meanness and deceit.
Elinor gently remonstrated with him on the meanness and absurdity of such conduct; but he silenced what he termed her impertinent interference in matters which did not concern her. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers
I stand shoulder to shoulder with all denouncers of meanness.
Kindness is a spiritual gentleman. Meanness is a spiritual rascal. Dr T.P.Chia
In short, no envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness; no vice, or meanness, or cheating, or any of the abominations of the planet Terra, and _we come from that planet_. A Honeymoon in Space
I willingly grant to you that some women are so wealthy, placed in situations requiring so much representation, that it would be degrading to them to take much thought about any thing but the beauty and fashion of their clothes; and that an anxiety on their part about the preservation of, to them, trifles would indicate meanness and parsimoniousness. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
I suspect that there's a mindset behind it of either desperation or just plain meanness that leads to this. November 2004
As a manifestation of petty selfishness and greed such meanness is hard to credit.
Pure meanness is highly valued in Caesar's legions.
He censures the cruelty of slave masters, the dodges of legacy hunters, and the meanness of the wealthy, but the targets of his criticisms are normally anonymous.
Now, though Captain Riga had not been guilty of any particular outrage against the sailors; yet, by a thousand small meannesses -- such as indirectly causing their allowance of bread and beef to be diminished, without betraying any appearance of having any inclination that way, and without speaking to the sailors on the subject -- by this, and kindred actions, I say, he had contracted the cordial dislike of the whole ship's company; and long since they had bestowed upon him a name unmentionably expressive of their contempt. Redburn. His First Voyage
I darkly hinted a threat of "blabbing" myself, as my meanness in telling tales would be as nothing to his in allowing Leo to suffer for his fault. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son
For the meaner the condition of each judge is, the greater will be the severity of judgment with which he will seek to efface the idea of his meanness; and he will strive rather to appear worthy of being classed in the honourable decuries, than to have deservedly ranked in a disreputable one. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
That is a horribly prohibitive price but there is much evidence to justify its meanness. Times, Sunday Times
Olympus — dazzlingly melancholy, and ‘humano major’ among the meannesses and trumperies of earth. Wylder's Hand
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
The name Susan is not the person Susan, but sometimes our minds fail to make such distinctions and we begin to act with indifference, sometimes meanness, toward those we have characterized by negative labels. THE ART OF TALKING SO THAT PEOPLE WILL LISTEN
As I use to say, meanness is becoming commonplace for our people. Global Voices in English » Japan: Reactions to the Japanese tourist rip-off in Italy
He has written to the Berlin-based national association of advertising agencies telling them their obsession with Scottish meanness is damaging.
I can imagine how I must have felt as that little girl, being introduced to the world of unfairness and meanness that can abound.
I am rejoiced to learn that the two factions of Texas Baptists, after having for months past denounced each other in language that smelled of sulphur and would have disgraced opposing parties of Parisian gamins -- after resorting to all the petty meanness of peanut politics to control the flesh-pots -- have kissed and hugged, slobbered and boohooed each on the other's brisket. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
We prize them for their rough-plastic, abstergent force; to get people out of the quadruped state; to get them washed, clothed, and set up on end; to slough their animal husks and habits; compel them to be clean; overawe their spite and meanness, teach them to stifle the base, and choose the generous expression, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors are. The Conduct of Life (1860)
At his death, he was unable to again access to Heaven because of his meanness.
There are satiric songs mocking meanness and tyranny, songs in praise of drink and drinkers, while other pieces celebrate heroic feats of valour or of sport.
Lady Delacour was immediately ambitious to outshine her in equipage; and it was this paltry ambition that made her condescend to all the meanness of the transaction by which she obtained Miss Portman's draft, and Clarence Hervey's two hundred guineas. Belinda
But the story about the time that I just acted on a moment of meanness – of unbidden, unjustified, inexplicable meanness – that story, I don’t know how spin didactically. Falling Out Of Trees | Her Bad Mother
I never descend to such meanness.
So it was about meanness, mingled of course with scrupulosity, care, attention to details. Times, Sunday Times
The same apprehensions, in every situation, regulate his notions of meanness or of dignity.
There's plenty of meanness, pettiness, selfishness, and loathsomeness out there; let's focus some attention on the greatness. Arianna Huffington: Introducing HuffPost's Greatest Person of the Day: Lessons in Creativity, Generosity and Passion
I was soon sent to school -- that preparatory world, where the great primal principles of human nature, in the aggression of the strong and the meanness of the weak, constitute the earliest lesson of importance that we are taught; and where the forced _primitiae_ of that less universal knowledge which is useless to the many who in after life, neglect, and bitter to the few who improve it, are the first motives for which our minds are to be broken to terror, and our hearts initiated into tears. Falkland, Complete
The meanness surfaces as he becomes more successful - his moustache, initially the affectation of a hick, becomes minatory, even forbidding.
Gradually, his neighbors become increasingly hostile and the small talk takes on an undercurrent of meanness.
To do Sir Piercie justice, it was an idea which never entered into his head; and he would probably have dealt the most scientific imbroccata, stoccata, or punto reverso, which the school of Vincent Saviola had taught him, to any man who had dared to suggest to him such selfish and ungrateful meanness. The Monastery
In Iraq, the distinction between wheaten and barley bread is identical to that in Europe: it is synonymous with poverty or meanness.
If the tales about old King Midas have a thruppence worth of truth in them, it might be his father's meanness that's ailing him. Seven Miles to Arden
Neither is he mature if he indulges in jealousy, envy or meanness. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
Don't get me wrong; there are some good times, but the meanness tells me I should get away from him.
Things are made to arouse our passion, so long as meanness and villainy prevail; and if old men, knowing the balance of the world, can contemplate them all "dispassionately," more clearly than any thing else, to my mind, that proves the beauty of being young. Erema — My Father's Sin
Junior high is a particular challenge socially and prime time for bullies to ply their special brand of meanness.
McMaster has been very successful in off-setting the meanness of the public purse by extending sponsorship and gifts to the present 28% of income.
She said this without a hint of meanness, without the slightest sarcasm.
Kidman's thriftiness was sometimes interpreted as meanness, but while he sacked employees for trivial waste, he was generous enough to donate properties and money to charitable causes.
He manages his household with a mind free from the taint of meanness.
And though his income, as you know, was so small, he never ran in debt, and by an exact but open oeconomy, escaped all imputation of meanness: while by forbearing either to conceal, or repine at his limited fortune, he blunted even the raillery of the dissipated, by frankly and good humouredly meeting it half way. Camilla
I thought you had been above such meanness, or, I promise you, I should never have borrowed your half-guinea, "added Holloway; and he left his unfortunate creditor to reflect upon the new ideas of _meanness_ and _spirit_, which had been thus artfully thrown out. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand
My meanness is usually restricted to just not spending if at all possible! Scrimping on cash before payday
A person of limited means may be generous or have a miserly attitude (although meanness is probably less obvious in the case of the poorer person).
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. Bertrand Russell
Mr. Baxter makes an acute connection between meanness and the raw pleasure it can unloose. Suburban Tensions In a Gauzy Glow
I was looking forward to seeing him go after these two nasty gals in a free-for-all of meanness.
It was useless to recall her duplicities, her mendacities, her hypocrisies, her meannesses. Clayhanger
And yet she couldn't remember one time when he had aimed that crankiness or meanness at her.
She struggles with the poverty and meanness of her surroundings to keep herself and her family 'respectable' and is determined that her boys will not become miners.
I was disgusted by the juvenility and meanness running through it all.
This only sows seeds of meanness in your heart, causing others not to trust you and causing you to suffer.
His meanness lost its gaiety and took on a purposive quality. FAMILY PICTURES
The Holyrood project has scuppered Scotland's reputation for meanness - perhaps a Minister for Frugality is needed or a Department of Thrift.
Which makes me wonder - are we turning into a country with no need for newspapers, or are we just turned off by their miserable diet of meanness, lightened with bilge about ever-less famous celebrities?
Speck Daniels, another suspected Watson by-blow, possesses his father's meanness as well as his shrewd sense of the world. An Epic of the Everglades
He is above meanness and fiddle.
At this he affected to be perfectly unconcerned, and merely protested against what he called the meanness of trying to fix the charge on him. Eric, or Little by Little
This imp was called a boggart in the old times, now we call such by other names -- ill-temper, meanness, uncharitableness, and the like. Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk
The Islanders have added enough grit and meanness to make them a formidably physical opponent.
This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.
I want to show the level of meanness people are capable of.
If it is true that there are books written to escape from the present moment, and its meanness and its sordidity, it is certainly true that readers are familiar with a corresponding mood. The Common Reader, Second Series
It may be that you just happened to run into a few people who think meanness is the way to go. B2fxxx
‘Meanness’ connotes not only the personal characteristics of spite, unkindness, or aggression, but also the social conditions of shabbiness and impoverishment.
Mom's criticism might be a sign of her meanness, for instance, but it could also be an awkward expression of her love.
He spares nothing to obtain the honour of serving them, and he vainly boasts of his own meanness.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand
Even in her shock, she was appalled by the meanness of the men's living conditions.
He has added an anti-Scottish meanness in his commentary and editorials.
It is also unfit that any human being possessed of this precious and sacred treasure of human life should live in meanness, in penury, in hardship, in torment, unless these things be perceivably for disciplinary or retaliatory purposes imposed upon that life by the official sentence of organized society. The Ontario Minimum Wage Bill
Even in relationship to his own soldiers, there is nothing at the core of this man but visceral meanness.
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Walden, or Life in the woods
The domestic theatre is her strength, her writer's eye picking out the daily victories, everyday meanness, with sensitivity and sympathy.
But neither will a generous spirit affect the empty sound of words; nor can a mind, unless enricht with learning, be deliver'd of a birth of poetry; there must be the purity of language, no porterly expression, or meanness, as I may call it, of words is to be admitted; but a stile perfectly above the common, and with Horace, -- The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
Scots meanness was actually invented by a Scot, the comedian Harry Lauder; before him, Highland hospitality was a universally used phrase meaning generosity.
I decided not to ask her for a loan in view of her proverbial meanness.
But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
All of history's great leaders have been narcissistic; in combination with generosity of spirit, you get Lincoln; in combination with meanness of spirit, you get Henry VIII.
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. Bertrand Russell
There were threats, and he would come home crying about all the meanness in the world.
As well as provoking mirth, the alleged meanness of Scots is also a powerful marketing tool.
A man should exercise an almost boundless toleration and placability, because if he is capricious enough to refuse to forgive a single individual for the meanness or evil that lies at his door, it is doing the rest of the world a quite unmerited honour. On Human Nature
She looked for light of injury in his eyes, or delicate meanness rising up against her, but she saw nothing.
In reading these blogs it seems that a lot more meanness is comeing from the Obama supporters. Clinton picks up a superdelegate, but still lags behind
And so true it is that love in either sect will rise up above naggin ', or any other kind of pardner meanness. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands
Further, prodigality and meanness are excesses and defects with regard to wealth; and meanness we always impute to those who care more than they ought for wealth, but we sometimes apply the word 'prodigality' in a complex sense; for we call those men prodigals who are incontinent and spend money on self-indulgence. The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
It allows deep significance to be read into mediocrity, vacuity, cheapness, meanness.
Most of the time meanness is more dangerous than civilized standards.
The women might have been sweet but they could also whip out a streak of meanness just to put the man in place.
As well as provoking mirth, the alleged meanness of Scots is also a powerful marketing tool.
I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched and dishonored from pirate-raids in Kiaochow, Manchuria, South Africa & the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Mark Twain
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
So too in the case of flattery we must observe and be on our guard against wastefulness being called liberality, and cowardliness prudence, and madness quick-wittedness, and meanness frugality, and the amorous man called social and affectionate, and the term manly applied to the passionate and vain man, and the term civil applied to the paltry and mean man. Plutarch's Morals
To do Sir Piercie justice, it was an idea which never entered into his head; and he would probably have dealt the most scientific _imbroccata, stoccata_, or _punto reverso_, which the school of Vincent Saviola had taught him, to any man who had dared to suggest to him such selfish and ungrateful meanness. The Monastery
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand
Certain jobs almost call for meanness: prison guard, Marine drill sergeant, movie reviewer.
The august destiny of his own eternal city [observe -- '_eternal_,' not in virtue of history, but of prophecy, not upon the retrospect and the analogies of any possible experience, but by the necessity of an aboriginal doom], a city that was to be the centre of an empire whose circumference is everywhere, did not depend for any part of its majesty upon the meanness of its enemies; on the contrary, in the very grandeur of those enemies lay, by a rebound of the feelings inevitable to a Roman mind, the paramount grandeur of that awful Republic which had swallowed them all up. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
'Ah! Don Lorenzo, you forget in that pompous title the meanness of my origin. The Monk; a romance
He just seems to bring out the meanness in them.
He found himself indulging in the most petty meannesses, and following these with flashes of a kind of loftiness of mind. Windy McPherson's Son
A few months before this time, he would have scorned the idea of concealing any part of his conduct, any one of his actions, from his best friend, Mr Percival; but his pride now reconciled him to the meanness of concealment; and here, the acuteness of him feelings was to his own mind an excuse for dissimulation: so fallacious is moral instinct, unenlightened or uncontrolled by reason and religion. Belinda
It belies the myth of Scottish meanness, eh, what with that and Ken's generous lift the previous night.
Better fall, with what you call pride, than stand with meanness. Clarissa Harlowe
The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men.
These "bullycide" stories reflect that "we let ourselves get jaded and bored, and meanness crept in to take the place of passion and interest. Danny Groner: Tyler Clementi's Death: College Newspapers React
But what we endured is a meanness of spirit, a viciousness, and a cruelty that I hope no political family will ever be subjected to again. Laura Bush's life, straight from the 'Heart'
If you want the goodness, of which there is much, you have to put up with the meanness, of which there is much.
He chuckled at that bit of nonsense, and said, "You don't think what she's done to you merits a little meanness?"
But there is a meanness and poorness in modern prudence, not only to the damage of civil government, but of religion itself; for to make a man in matter of religion, which admits not of sensible demonstration (jurare in verba magistri), engage to believe no otherwise than is believed by my lord bishop, or Goodman Presbyter is a pedantism that has made the sword to be a rod in the hands of schoolmasters; by which means, whereas the Christian religion is the furthest of any from countenancing war, there never was a war of religion but since The Commonwealth of Oceana
The simply meanness of that they demonstrate is sad if he decided to run as an independent all the power to him. Source: Rubio campaign asked for Cheney's backing
I say, "Non ragionam di lor, ma guarda e passa" The meanness of that additional day in your sentence shows how prepotent authorities have become even in America, and public opinion how intolerant. 'The Letters of George Santayana'
To do Sir Piercie justice, it was an idea which never entered into his head; and he would probably have dealt the most scientific imbroccata, stoccata, or punto reverso, which the school of Vincent Saviola had taught him, to any man who had dared to suggest to him such selfish and ungrateful meanness. The Monastery
Its most malign expression is meanness and luridness that, so mendaciously, pretends to be fierce truth holding up a mirror to meanness and luridness.
The incredible meanness of the praemunire, and consequent confiscation, which the cardinal was pronounced to have incurred for obtaining the cardinalate and legateship from Rome -- though of course this had been done with the king's full knowledge and consent The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

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