Definition of "meannesses" [meannesses]

• Plural form of meanness. (noun)

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• "It is a pity that wealth does not oftener bring such "meannesses" in its train."
• "Bonnie witnesses the small meannesses people use to quell, to dampen their own internal fires."
• "I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she is -- her weaknesses, and meannesses, and immodesties, and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet, and her eyes that have never seen the stars."