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Meanness synonyms

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despitefulness
The state or quality of being despiteful.
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  1. The state or quality of being despiteful.
ill will
Ill-disposed attitude; grudge; dislike.
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  1. Ill-disposed attitude; grudge; dislike.
  2. Alternative spelling of ill will.
  3. Unfriendly feeling; hostility; hate; malice
malevolence
Malevolent behavior.
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  1. Malevolent behavior.
  2. The quality or state of being malevolent; malice; spitefulness; ill will
malice
Active ill will; desire to harm another or to do mischief; spite
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  1. Active ill will; desire to harm another or to do mischief; spite
  2. (Law) The intent to commit an unlawful act without justification or excuse.
  3. A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite.
malignancy
A malignant tumor.
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  1. A malignant tumor.
  2. The quality or condition of being malignant
  3. The state or quality of being malignant.
malignity
A malignant act, event, or feeling
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  1. A malignant act, event, or feeling
  2. Persistent, intense ill will or desire to harm others; great malice
  3. The condition or quality of being highly dangerous or injurious; deadliness.
poisonousness
The state or quality of being poisonous.
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  1. The state or quality of being poisonous.
spite
(Obs.) Something annoying or irritating
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  1. (Obs.) Something annoying or irritating
  2. (--- Archaic) An instance of this; a grudge
  3. A mean or evil feeling toward another, characterized by the inclination to hurt, humiliate, annoy, frustrate, etc.; ill will; malice
spitefulness
(Countable) The result or product of being spiteful.
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  1. (Countable) The result or product of being spiteful.
  2. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being spiteful.
venomousness
The condition of being venomous
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  1. The condition of being venomous
Find another word for meanness. In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for meanness, like: despitefulness, ill will, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, nastiness, poisonousness, spite and spitefulness.

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  • We never learned meanness of them.

  • Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

  • Many an irksome noise, go a long way off, is heard as music, a proud, sweet satire on the meanness of our lives.

  • Fox still held to his old opinions as stoutly as he could, and condemned and opposed the war which England had declared against the French republic. Burke, who was profoundly incapable of the meanness of letting personal estrangement blind his eyes to what was best for the commonwealth, kept hoping against hope that each new trait of excess in France would at length bring the great Whig leader to a better mind.

  • The king was generally loathed, not so much for his viceswhich would have been, in this case as in others, condoned in a more popular monarchbut for the notorious meanness and selfishness of his character.

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