meanness

Example Sentences

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But Mr. Cornyn has no gift for meanness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Rourke later apologised to Siwa, and told the housemates he "didn't say it out of meanness".

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2025

But watch those eyes widen when suddenly there’s a test of guts and his meanness flares again.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Another said the demon’s “ludicrous meanness destroys the terror which is the soul of the scene.”

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Nearly everyone in town raised a few chickens, but turkeys were less common, being bigger and having a more pronounced tendency toward meanness, except of course for Travis’s birds.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly