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Definitions
extreme stinginess
Word origin
From mean + -ness.
Used in a sentence
“This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.”
“There are enough meannesses in everyone — ourselves included — to make for us a contemptible world, if we select the meannesses and let our minds dwell upon them.”
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