| As well as provoking mirth, the alleged meanness of Scots is also a powerful marketing tool. |
| Both are at one with a certain instinct of frugality, by which I do not mean meanness. |
| It allows deep significance to be read into mediocrity, vacuity, cheapness, meanness. |
| There were threats, and he would come home crying about all the meanness in the world. |
| If you want the goodness, of which there is much, you have to put up with the meanness, of which there is much. |
| The domestic theatre is her strength, her writer's eye picking out the daily victories, everyday meanness, with sensitivity and sympathy. |
