meanness

Example Sentences

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“Dad knows we didn’t kill Miss Myrt. She died of her own meanness. The bile backed up in her, and she foundered on it.”

From Literature

Gandy had been in so many fights he was scarred up like a back alley tomcat, which didn’t seem to help his meanness at all.

From Literature

Bruno might feel smaller than me even, but I didn’t think meanness was ever in anyone’s destiny.

From Literature

I must have radiated foul meanness of the most terrible kind.

From Literature

“I think the way you ask the question, with the anger and the meanness, is terrible. You go back and learn how to be a reporter. No more questions from you.”

From Salon