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Sentence Examples He has written to the Berlin-based national association of advertising agencies telling them their obsession with Scottish meanness is damaging. It allows deep significance to be read into mediocrity, vacuity, cheapness, meanness. There were threats, and he would come home crying about all the meanness in the world. The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. The same apprehensions, in every situation, regulate his notions of meanness or of dignity. If you want the goodness, of which there is much, you have to put up with the meanness, of which there is much. Scrooge has been immortalised in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit. I can imagine how I must have felt as that little girl, being introduced to the world of unfairness and meanness that can abound. Mom's criticism might be a sign of her meanness, for instance, but it could also be an awkward expression of her love. The Islanders have added enough grit and meanness to make them a formidably physical opponent. And yet she couldn't remember one time when he had aimed that crankiness or meanness at her. Junior high is a particular challenge socially and prime time for bullies to ply their special brand of meanness. Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness. The women might have been sweet but they could also whip out a streak of meanness just to put the man in place. Gradually, his neighbors become increasingly hostile and the small talk takes on an undercurrent of meanness. I was looking forward to seeing him go after these two nasty gals in a free-for-all of meanness. Even in relationship to his own soldiers, there is nothing at the core of this man but visceral meanness. 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. She looked for light of injury in his eyes, or delicate meanness rising up against her, but she saw nothing. Even in her shock, she was appalled by the meanness of the men's living conditions. Show More Sentences As a manifestation of petty selfishness and greed such meanness is hard to credit. 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. He spares nothing to obtain the honour of serving them, and he vainly boasts of his own meanness. At his death, he was unable to again access to Heaven because of his meanness. His opus ends up on top for the sheer indifference, cheapness, humorlessness, pointlessness, meanness, and ineptitude of the entire production. As well as provoking mirth, the alleged meanness of Scots is also a powerful marketing tool. Both are at one with a certain instinct of frugality, by which I do not mean meanness. The Treasury displayed the utmost determination, ingenuity, tergiversation and meanness of spirit in trying to cut his fees. This only sows seeds of meanness in your heart, causing others not to trust you and causing you to suffer. It belies the myth of Scottish meanness, eh, what with that and Ken's generous lift the previous night. The domestic theatre is her strength, her writer's eye picking out the daily victories, everyday meanness, with sensitivity and sympathy. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. She said this without a hint of meanness, without the slightest sarcasm. 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. Most of the time meanness is more dangerous than civilized standards. They send her undercover to infiltrate the ultra-popular glamazons who rule the school, in order to plot revenge for years of accumulated meanness. Rich and poor despise each other, and all justify their meanness in the most appallingly self-serving ways imaginable. I was disgusted by the juvenility and meanness running through it all. 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. He manages his household with a mind free from the taint of meanness. Show More Sentences We all know it is immoral and deeply un-Australian in its meanness. Nothing but meanness is stopping us having homes like the Jetsons. I stand shoulder to shoulder with all denouncers of meanness. 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. He has added an anti-Scottish meanness in his commentary and editorials. 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 king, who had a reputation for meanness, offered a private settlement, which Frederick rejected. Their faces changed, and all the meanness, conceit, cruelty, and sneakishness almost disappeared in one single expression of terror. Edward himself, now thoroughly enlightened on her character, had no scruple in believing her capable of the utmost meanness of wanton ill-nature. His meanness toward religious people was unbearably callous and smug. He carries on operations upon so vast a scale that he casts out frettiness and meanness wherever he goes. So from day one of the new government, we saw a sustained orgy of divisiveness and meanness about immigration, Aborigines and dole bludgers. He tossed Corndog out the back door by his collar, more for effect than meanness, I guess, because he made sure Corndog could catch his horn when he tossed it after him. The 64-year-old diva accused Christopher Anderson of rehashing earlier biographies and enlisted the help of her former brother-in-law to refute accounts of her meanness. Excess of it is extravagancy and inadequacy of it is meanness. Examples from Classical Literature Oh, how you must have despised me for the folly, the meanness of my suspicions! But he was a generous man and all meanness of spirit was foreign to his soul. Commander of the faithful, abase not yourself to the meanness of your slave. I think it was only in the art journal of September 1st, 1854, that any writer had the meanness to charge me with insincerity. And though the meanness and cowardliness were apparent, Louis looked at little else than the extreme agony of the suppliant. It is the dolium galea, good friends, and we could tell you six other kinds that are suspected of this meanness. But perhaps even the too frequent loss of books is an evil to be preferred to the egoistical meanness of the selfish collector. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. As it is, he has some difficulty to contend with the hebetude of his intellect, and the meanness of his subject. The meanness and misery on the hitherward bank were like witches, who cannot cross running water. Human meanness is never so pitiful as when it tries to seize on God's judgments as weapons with which to gratify its own spites. The meanness, the squalor, the degradation of his morale and life are not discernible in his works. This, at times subjected him to the imputation of meanness, but for this he cared little. Yet where do we see the lowest point of unfaith and meanness, in Ephraim or succoth? Thus, he shows the bad tendencies of avarice and love-intrigues, and the meanness of sycophantism and legacy-hunting. It must be admitted that simplicity is not meanness, nor thriftiness a fault. Then in magniloquent terms he discoursed about the meanness of making such a base concession. There are depths of meanness in your character, Renny, that I never suspected. She despised herself for the meanness of her passion, and Joseph for its ill success. Don Christopher can have no motive to misstate, even were he capable of the meanness. Show More Sentences He shall see, he shall confess, that no meanness is mixt with the love of Elinor. Throughout an epoch which laid bare the meanness of most natures, his character was unsmirched. It is here that the narrowness of the mind of woman is revealed in all its meanness. She saw the meanness underlying his pretended solicitation for her well-being. I'm tellin' you that my boys will make you look like a plugged nickel if you don't get shet of yore meanness. The relict and sole executrix of this noble-minded man was an odd mixture of shrewdness and simplicity, liberality and meanness. He was tired of Toad, and his sulks and his airs and his meanness. Still, I don't mind that, only as an indication of his meanness. Yet he censures the Egyptian meanness and inhospitality to strangers. And yet you call us rebels, and accuse us of meanness and of parsimony. This his rapacious miserable master had the meanness to take from him. The meanness of anonymity gave a shuddering obscenity to the moment. Not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness even among slaveholders. John, in the midst of this disorderly competition of poverty and meanness, sat stunned, contemplating the mountain bulk of his misfortunes. For instance, we ascribe to people traits of character like honesty, punctuality, considerateness and meanness. According to Siderov, the protesters had no ideology, but were only harboring meanness and revengefulness with the goal to divide the nation. They both thought she was keeping back the pork out of meanness. The meanness and unfairness had brought from Jerry no snarling threat of retaliation, such as he would have offered Lerumie or any other black. Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness. Show More Sentences With a sense of grovelling meanness, Philip sat and listened. He preferred to attribute it to the dead weight of instinct which he could not step over, again through weakness and meanness. Nay, the high priests of this worship had the man before them as a protest against their meanness. I had been hitherto, all my life, a stranger to courts, for which I was unqualified by the meanness of my condition. We must show him that we despise his miserliness and meanness. No room here for all the sordidness, meanness, and viciousness that filled the dirty pool of city existence. How do I know that he will not despise my meanness and paltriness? And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness. Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your character and aims. Great Britain, it seemed, in an access of meanness, temporised and wrangled with the imperial spirited Butteridge and his extraordinary invention. None of the tricks that he was ever eager to do for Steward, would Michael do for Kwaque, despite the fact that Kwaque had no touch of meanness or viciousness in him. 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What is the opposite of meanness? Words that rhyme with meanness What is the plural of meanness? What is the adverb for meanness? What is the adjective for meanness? What is the noun for meanness? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words mean-minded meanly meaning that meanings meaning-making meaningly meannesses mean person means Means means a lot means of 8-letter Words Starting With m me mea mean meann meanne meannes