Definition of Meanness

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Definition of Meanness
	Meanness The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. Related Definitions: Act, As, Baseness, Be, Being, Condition, Excellence, Guilty, Lowness, Mean, Meanness, Of, Or, Poorness, Quality, Sordidness, Stinginess, The, To, Want

Meanness Quotations

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Ovid

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
Todd Solondz

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
William John Wills

Meanness Translations

meanness in Latin is sordes

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