noun. A mean, vindictive spirit.

noun. The state of being mean in grade or quality; want of dignity or distinction; commonness; poorness; rudeness.

noun. Want of mental elevation or dignity, destitution of spirit or honor; contemptibleness; baseness.

noun. Sordid illiberality; stinginess; over-selfish economy in small things; niggardliness.

noun. Synonyms Abjectness, lowness, lowliness, scantiness. slenderness. See abject.

noun. 2 and Littleness, Meanness, illiberality, sordidness, penuriousness, closeness, miserliness. Littleness applies to more than meanness applies to, as the understanding and the affections; it is the opposite of all largeness of nature, and especially of magnanimity. Meanness is directly selfish, but in a sordid, groveling, pinching fashion; it is the opposite of nobleness and generosity. See penuriousness.

noun. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

noun. A mean act.

noun. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

noun. A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.

noun. extreme stinginess

noun. the quality of being deliberately mean

"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."

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