meanness
9
5.4
- noun
- /ˈmiːn.nəs/
:
maldad
- His meanness towards his coworkers made the office atmosphere uncomfortable.
- meanness and prejudice
But how do you reduce the meanness of people on YouTube?
- But how do you reduce the meanness of people on YouTube?
- If they were going to give a Pulitzer Prize for meanness, he would win.
- Fixing one thing after months or years of manipulation and meanness isn't going to turn this ship around.
- I mean, there's truth in them, even if if they come with meanness.
- It's a very shiny veneer that nasty people put over the front of their meanness to appear nice.
- There is a meanness to stinginess, and it overlaps quite clearly with the meanness of the narcissistic personality.
- And then right below it, just racism and just abject stupidity and meanness.
- It denies other women the ability to accuse the female perpetrators of of meanness against them.
- You can't bathe me with meanness because of it.
- You can't phase me with meanness because of it.
- I've never had the phone hung up on me, like without any meanness so fast.
- And then also the sentimental meanness, the sentimental songs he made last is is what really kept his legacy strong.
Examples
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My mother will not be content till one of them dies from her meanness.
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What amazes me is that you have no idea what his sort of 'meanness' is like.
Fiction book (1990) -
I am almost afraid of all the hate and meanness I have inside," she said.
Fiction book (1995) -
At the bottom, at the heart of them was a meanness they kept for when they wanted it.
Fiction book (1998) -
But how do you reduce the meanness of people on YouTube?
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I - I tried to shelter him from all the meanness in the world, the pain and the loss.
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And she must be punished!" There seemed a meanness about the act that concerned me.
Fiction book (1990) -
But he did it without resentment, without meanness; he simply liked them better that way.
Academic text (2008) -
And then she added, with what seemed like undeniable meanness, "That must have been it."
Fiction book (1999) -
"Oh, I don't think Mark's meanness is quite so easily explained," Roz said.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
129
3.2
Actions that hurt people or animals on purpose
54
6.3
A wish to hurt someone or make them suffer
12
4.8
Mean or cruel behavior meant to hurt someone
10
6.3
Being very cruel and violent toward other people or animals
9
7.3
To show no pity or kindness to reach a goal
8
8.8
A feeling of wanting to harm other people
7
6.5
A habit of being unkind or cruel to other people
6
4.1
Very severe or unkind treatment that causes harm
6
7.4
A lack of concern for other people's feelings or suffering
3
8.5
A way of behaving that is mean and hurtful to other people
3
4.1
Lack of care for other people
2
7.5
A wish to hurt or make other people suffer
2
5.9
Strong feelings of dislike and anger toward people or things
1
7.0
Mean words or actions that hurt other people
1
8.1
Saying small mean things to hurt someone in a quiet way
1
4.5
Wanting to hurt or make others suffer
1
7.4
A wish to hurt, upset, or annoy other people
1
8.4
A complete lack of pity or kindness toward others
1
8.7
Cruel or very mean behavior towards other people
1
8.6
Rude, unfriendly behavior that makes other people feel unwelcome
1
8.2
A harsh, unkind way of speaking or acting
Being unkind and cruel to other people on purpose
Being cruel and showing little kindness
A lack of kindness or willingness to help others
Antonyms
How Unkind
- Offensive
11
8.4
- Offensive
187
5.6
- NSFW
129
3.2
9
5.4
3
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Meanness grew from the same old idea of mean as 'small' or 'low' in spirit, like being 'small-hearted'. That's why meanness can mean being deliberately unkind or cruel.