Associations to the word «Meanness»

Wiktionary

MEANNESS, noun. (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
MEANNESS, noun. A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.

Dictionary definition

MEANNESS, noun. The quality of being deliberately mean.
MEANNESS, noun. Extreme stinginess.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne