NOUN | attribute | meanness, beastliness | the quality of being deliberately mean / mean |
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attribute | meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness | extreme / extreme stinginess |
Sounds | miy'nnahs | |
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Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... |
Meaning | The quality of being deliberately mean / mean. | |
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Synonym | beastliness | |
Broader | malevolence, malevolency, malice | The quality of threatening evil |
Spanish | bestialidad | |
Adjectives | mean | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality |
mean | characterized by malice | |
mean | (used of persons or behavior / behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity / generosity |
Meaning | extreme / extreme stinginess. | |
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Synonyms | minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness | |
Narrower | miserliness | Total lack of generosity / generosity with money |
pettiness, littleness, smallness | lack of generosity / generosity in trifling matters | |
Broader | stinginess | A lack of generosity / generosity |
Spanish | mezquindad | |
Catalan | mesquinesa | |
Adjectives | mean | (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt / contempt |
mean | (used of persons or behavior / behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity / generosity |
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