英语词汇“meanness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

meanness

/ˈmiːnnəs

noun [mass noun]

1chiefly British Lack of generosity; miserliness.He has written to the Berlin-based national association of advertising agencies telling them their obsession with Scottish meanness is damaging....

Nothing but meanness is stopping us having homes like the Jetsons.
He censures the cruelty of slave masters, the dodges of legacy hunters, and the meanness of the wealthy, but the targets of his criticisms are normally anonymous.

Synonyms

miserliness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penury, illiberality, greed, avarice, acquisitiveness

informal stinginess, tight-fistedness, tightness, minginess

North American cheapness

archaic nearness

2Unkindness, spitefulness, or unfairness: all the hatred and meanness, despair and sorrow surrounding us...

I stand shoulder to shoulder with all denouncers of meanness.
The same apprehensions, in every situation, regulate his notions of meanness or of dignity.
Most of the time meanness is more dangerous than civilized standards.

Synonyms

nastiness, mean-spiritedness, spitefulness, disagreeableness, unpleasantness, unkindness

2.1North American Aggressive character; viciousness: he is also callous, with a streak of meanness...

He manages his household with a mind free from the taint of meanness.
He just seems to bring out the meanness in them.
I want to show the level of meanness people are capable of.

3Lack of quality or attractiveness; shabbiness: the meanness of that existence...

Even in her shock, she was appalled by the meanness of the men's living conditions.
In Iraq, the distinction between wheaten and barley bread is identical to that in Europe: it is synonymous with poverty or meanness.
She struggles with the poverty and meanness of her surroundings to keep herself and her family 'respectable' and is determined that her boys will not become miners.

Synonyms

squalor, squalidness, shabbiness, dilapidation, sordidness, seediness, sleaziness, insalubriousness, wretchedness, dismalness, dinginess, poverty

informal scruffiness, scuzziness, crumminess, grunginess, tackiness

British informal grottiness

单词	meanness
释义	meanness /ˈmiːnnəs / noun [mass noun] 1chiefly British Lack of generosity; miserliness.He has written to the Berlin-based national association of advertising agencies telling them their obsession with Scottish meanness is damaging.... Nothing but meanness is stopping us having homes like the Jetsons. He censures the cruelty of slave masters, the dodges of legacy hunters, and the meanness of the wealthy, but the targets of his criticisms are normally anonymous. Synonyms miserliness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penury, illiberality, greed, avarice, acquisitiveness informal stinginess, tight-fistedness, tightness, minginess North American cheapness archaic nearness 2Unkindness, spitefulness, or unfairness: all the hatred and meanness, despair and sorrow surrounding us... I stand shoulder to shoulder with all denouncers of meanness. The same apprehensions, in every situation, regulate his notions of meanness or of dignity. Most of the time meanness is more dangerous than civilized standards. Synonyms nastiness, mean-spiritedness, spitefulness, disagreeableness, unpleasantness, unkindness 2.1North American Aggressive character; viciousness: he is also callous, with a streak of meanness... He manages his household with a mind free from the taint of meanness. He just seems to bring out the meanness in them. I want to show the level of meanness people are capable of. 3Lack of quality or attractiveness; shabbiness: the meanness of that existence... Even in her shock, she was appalled by the meanness of the men's living conditions. In Iraq, the distinction between wheaten and barley bread is identical to that in Europe: it is synonymous with poverty or meanness. She struggles with the poverty and meanness of her surroundings to keep herself and her family 'respectable' and is determined that her boys will not become miners. Synonyms squalor, squalidness, shabbiness, dilapidation, sordidness, seediness, sleaziness, insalubriousness, wretchedness, dismalness, dinginess, poverty informal scruffiness, scuzziness, crumminess, grunginess, tackiness British informal grottiness
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