Crossword-Solution: MEANNESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Meanness | n. | The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. |
| Meanness | n. | A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MEANNESS | anagram | SSENNAEM |
We have 19 clues for the answer “MEANNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Scrooge overcame this | 1 answer |
| Nasty quality | 1 answer |
| Jerk's quality | 1 answer |
| Ignoble quality | 1 answer |
| Bully's trait | 1 answer |
| Grinch's character trait | 1 answer |
| Grinch's trait | 1 answer |
| Ignobility | 1 answer |
| Malicious behavior | 2 answers |
| Ornery quality | 2 answers |
| miserliness | 4 answers |
| CHEESEPARING | 5 answers |
| pettiness | 6 answers |
| Parsimony | 6 answers |
| amorality | 26 answers |
| beggarliness | 38 answers |
| Slander | 41 answers |
| baseness | 74 answers |
| Misfortune | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MEANNESS (5)
Not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness even among slaveholders.
But there was an elasticity in her firmness which removed it from obstinacy, as there was a naïveté in her cheapening which saved it from meanness.
Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness.
Then, I said, we must take Damon into our counsels; and he will tell us what rhythms are expressive of meanness, or insolence, or fury, or other unworthiness, and what are to be reserved for the expression of opposite feelings.
She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness, and her determined prejudice against herself, to comprehend all the difficulties that must have perplexed the engagement, and retarded the marriage, of Edward and herself, had he been otherwise free; and she had seen almost enough to be thankful for her _own_ sake, that one greater obstacle preserved her from suffering under any other of Mrs.
Quotes with MEANNESS (3)
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness…
It has always seemed strange to me... The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor... Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1970–2021).