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Synonyms of meanness in English:

meanness


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See Spanish definition of tacañería

noun

1‘his careful attitude towards money bordered on meanness’

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
ANTONYMS

generosity

2‘the filth and meanness of the place’

SYNONYMS
squalor, squalidness, shabbiness, dilapidation, sordidness, seediness, sleaziness, insalubriousness, wretchedness, dismalness, dinginess, poverty
informal scruffiness, scuzziness, crumminess, grunginess, tackiness
British informal grottiness

3‘his meanness of temper’

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