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The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
Matt Taibbi

Meaning of "meanness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MEANNESS

meanness  [ˈmiːnnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEANNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Meanness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MEANNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

meanness

Cruelty

Cruelty is indifference to suffering, and even pleasure in inflicting it. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept. Cruel ways of inflicting suffering may involve violence, but affirmative violence is not necessary for an act to be cruel. For example, if a person is drowning and begging for help, and another person is able to help, but merely watches with disinterest or perhaps mischievous amusement, that person is being cruel — rather than violent. George Eliot stated that "cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity." Bertrand Russell stated that "the infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell." Gilbert K. Chesterton stated that "cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."...

Definition of meanness in the English dictionary

The first definition of meanness in the dictionary is the quality of being stingy or ungenerous with money. Other definition of meanness is the quality of being narrow-minded or selfish. Meanness is also the quality of being cruel or nasty.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEANNESS


cleanness
ˈkliːnnɪs
commonness
ˈkɒmənnɪs
evenness
ˈiːvənnɪs
fineness
ˈfaɪnnɪs
genuineness
ˈdʒenjʊɪnnɪs
greenness
ˈɡriːnnɪs
keenness
ˈkiːnnɪs
leanness
ˈliːnnɪs
oneness
ˈwʌnnɪs
openness
ˈəʊpənnɪs
opportuneness
ˌɒpəˈtjuːnnɪs
plainness
ˈpleɪnnɪs
proneness
ˈprəʊnnɪs
rottenness
ˈrɒtnnɪs
sternness
ˈstɜːnnɪs
stubbornness
ˈstʌbənnɪs
suddenness
ˈsʌdənnɪs
thinness
ˈθɪnnɪs
unevenness
ʌnˈiːvənnɪs
wantonness
ˈwɒntənnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEANNESS

meanies
meaning
meaningful
meaningfully
meaningfulness
meaningless
meaninglessly
meaninglessness
meaningly
meanly
means
means of production
means of transport
means test
means-test
means-tested
meant
meantime
meanwhile
meany

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEANNESS

barrenness
betweenness
brazenness
brokenness
brownness
business
drunkenness
foreignness
givenness
goldenness
Guinness
hiddenness
humanness
McGuinness
oftenness
soddenness
sullenness
tyranness
uncertainness
uncleanness
vainness

Synonyms and antonyms of meanness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MEANNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «meanness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of meanness

Translation of «meanness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MEANNESS

Find out the translation of meanness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of meanness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «meanness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

卑劣
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mezquindad
570 millions of speakers

English

meanness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दरिद्रता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подлость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mesquinhez
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নীচতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mesquinerie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keberanian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gemeinheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

卑劣
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비열함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngapusi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự ý nghia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அற்பத்தனம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्षुद्रपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alçaklık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

miseria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podłość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підлість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

josnicie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευτέλεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gemeenheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meanness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ondskap
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of meanness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEANNESS»

The term «meanness» is regularly used and occupies the 103.325 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEANNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «meanness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «meanness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about meanness

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10 QUOTES WITH «MEANNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word meanness.
1
Walter Bagehot
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
2
Robert Crumb
You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.
3
Linda Hunt
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
4
Karl Kraus
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
5
J. R. Moehringer
Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
6
Dennis Prager
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
7
George Sand
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
8
Todd Solondz
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
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Matt Taibbi
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
10
William John Wills
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEANNESS»

Discover the use of meanness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to meanness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Joyce's Style of 'scrupulous Meanness' in His Literary Work ...
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Ulster at Coleraine (Faculty of Arts), course: Proseminar Irish Author Studies, 5 entries in the bibliography, ...
Beate Wilhelm, 2007
2
Cruel and Unusual Idiots: Chronicles of Meanness and Stupidity
Inside this collection, Gregory offers more than 275 accounts of human stupidity at its most malicious and peculiar: * In August 2006, 40-year-old Darrel Rodgers was treated at a Bloomington, Indiana, hospital for a self-inflicted gunshot ...
Gregory, Leland, 2009
3
Deliberate Acts of Needless Meanness: A Miscellany of ...
After all, the worldould be a very dull place without a little mischief! In this dastardlyittle book, Justin Rosenholtz has come up with one dark deed for every dayf the year.
Justin Rosenholtz, 2006
4
What Would Machiavelli Do?: The Ends Justify the Meanness
Applying Machiavelli's coldly pragmatic world view to the modern business world, the author offers readers with few moral scruples a battle plan for climbing the company ladder, or preventing others from doing so. Reprint.
Stanley Bing, 2002
5
The Triumph of Meanness: America's War Against Its Better Self
Probes the rash of mean-spirited occurrences that have bloomed across the nation in recent years, such as church burnings and assaults on the poor and vulnerable
Nicolaus Mills, 1997
6
Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)
Yet they differ in this, that illiberal ity regards ordinary expenditure, while meanness regards great expenditure, which is a more difficult accomplishment: wherefore meanness is less sinful than illiberality. Hence the Philosopher says ( Ethic, iv, ...
St Thomas Aquinas, 2013
7
Girlhood
In summary, "meanness" refers to acts of ridicule, name-calling, backstabbing, gossip and social exclusion. Simmons ( 2002) describes this behaviour as girls' use of friendship as a weapon. While we agree that meanness operates through  ...
Candis Steenbergen
8
Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in ...
2. Dubliners. "Scrupulous. Meanness". Versus. Expansive. Performance. The text of Dubliners is replete with bravura and virtuoso performances— of music, song, and dance; of storytelling, poetic recitation, and extravagant pub talk as well as ...
Alan Warren Friedman, 2007
9
Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
MEANNESS AND GENEROSITY. GENEROSITY and meanness are to each other as heaven and hell, the two extremes of disposition and conduct in our mode of dealing with other men. Generosity is a certain manly and womanly virtue, ...
Theodore Parker, 1872
10
The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the ...
MEANNESS AND GENEROSI'IY. GENEROSITY and meanness are to each other as heaven and hell, the two extremes of disposition and conduct in our mode of dealing with other men. Generosity is a certain manly and womanly virtue, ...
Theodore Parker, Frances Power Cobbe, 1872

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEANNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term meanness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
To be or not to be politically correct: What was that question?
I see little benefit in promoting societal meanness by standing silent while bullies beat down people whose lives are difficult to begin with. «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»
2
ASK TONY: I pay £17 a month for a Virgin landline phone that doesn …
You are as unhappy as I am about Virgin's meanness. So I went back to the firm, emphasising the pathetic level of service it had provided, and ... «This is Money, Jul 15»
3
In support of James Newberry
It seems there is a lot of meanness without any recognition of all the work Commissioner Newberry has provided for the community. This is ... «Sky Hi Daily News, Jul 15»
4
Bad behavior is easy to recognize
... of future Vote for Curly , Larry and Moe , ( Olsen , Orr and Magill ) We as a Community have had enough of the meanness of these Tyrant's ! «The Western News, Jul 15»
5
Is Pope Francis obsessed with the devil?
The devil is so frequently active in our lives and in the church, drawing us into negativity, cynicism, despair, meanness of spirit, sadness and ... «WBAL Baltimore, Jul 15»
6
Learning from Singapore
All this creates a meanness of spirit that erodes the academic environment. I fear especially for our students who will go out into the world ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
7
Why is Pope Francis so obsessed with the devil?
The devil is so frequently active in our lives and in the church, drawing us into negativity, cynicism, despair, meanness of spirit, sadness and ... «Gant Daily, Jul 15»
8
John Kasichs anger management
“I have never seen an ounce of meanness.” At times of great stress, and when political stakes are particularly high, Kasich can exhibit a ... «Politico, Jul 15»
9
Confederate flag must be confined to the past
Attaching banality or meanness to every element of our culture is unfair, but defining southern pride is an endless navigation. In our town, high- ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
10
Is this the end of Trump '16? I very much doubt it
... driven by the same meanness of spirit and resentment that defines Trump the man, Trump the candidate and Trump the political movement. «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»

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