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Meanness
ME'ANNESS, n. Want of dignity or rank; low state; as meanness of birth or condition. Poverty is not always meanness; it may be connected with it, but men of dignified minds and manners are often poor.
1. Want of excellence of any kind; poorness; rudeness.
This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.
2. Lowness of mind; want of dignity and elevation; want of honor. Meanness in men incurs contempt. All dishonesty is meanness.
3. Sordidness; niggardliness; opposed to liberality or charitableness. Meanness is very different from frugality.
4. Want of richness; poorness; as the meanness of dress or equipage.
meanness appears in definitions for these words:
Abjection Abjectness Ashes Baldness Base-mindedness Baseness Beggarliness Bravery Coarseness Contemptibleness Contractedness Curship Debase Degeneracy Descend Despicableness Detest Dignity Dirt Dirtiness Dishonorable Disingenuity Fawning Generosity Hatred Honor Ignobleness Illiberality Insignificance Instrument Liberally Littleness Lowliness Lowness Magnanimity Meanness Minnow Obedience Parsimony Pitiful Pitifully Poor-spiritedness Poorness Puppyism Putidness Scorn Shabbiness Slavishness Sly Sneakingness Sonorous Sordidness Sorriness Tameness Underhand Vileness Wretchedness
Abjection Abjectness Ashes Baldness Base-mindedness Baseness Beggarliness Bravery Coarseness Contemptibleness Contractedness Curship Debase Degeneracy Descend Despicableness Detest Dignity Dirt Dirtiness Dishonorable Disingenuity Fawning Generosity Hatred Honor Ignobleness Illiberality Insignificance Instrument Liberally Littleness Lowliness Lowness Magnanimity Meanness Minnow Obedience Parsimony Pitiful Pitifully Poor-spiritedness Poorness Puppyism Putidness Scorn Shabbiness Slavishness Sly Sneakingness Sonorous Sordidness Sorriness Tameness Underhand Vileness Wretchedness
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