| 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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