meanness

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It is Austen’s ability to penetrate minds both narrow and lofty, and to examine, with as much sympathy as shrewdness, the ways we justify our prejudices and our small meannesses.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013

Trudeau's rather formal answer: "To let the small meannesses and foolishnesses of life face each other in distortion, stretched, juggled and juxtaposed, but always lit with laughter, can ease the pain of self-recognition."

From Time Magazine Archive

These days we trade verbal meannesses as a kind of game, like badminton.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

They were subject to all the meannesses and all the baseness of the least noble of their worshippers.

From Life of Saint Monica by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)

It is more just than you suppose; that your virtues are misunderstood is a price you pay to keep your meannesses concealed.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis