Meanness

My father could be maddening and small-minded, but I had been trying to match him in meanness, to hurt him because I was hurt.

The reason Canadians are so nice is that all their meanness got sucked out of them and transferred to Canada geese.

At the same time, there's a meanness in some of the conversations around young girls and tweens at Sephora that I find worrying.

Our legislature members should practice being kind and work together in our best interests as a demonstration to the populace that hatred and meanness are not acceptable behaviors and will not be tolerated.

Roald Dahl here, proving that even a trip to a chocolate factory had to feature an undercurrent of murder and meanness – although it’s the surrealness of Willy Wonka that most will remember.

To others, this person is kind and empathetic, self-effacing and helpful but behind closed doors, the meanness is so insidiously targeted, only you ‘get it’.

Meanness can be cowardly as in the situation when monuments erected in honour of those who fought against Nazism are demolished and these shameful acts are justified by the false slogans of the fight against an unwelcome ideology and alleged occupation.

Call out meanness or bullying when you see it.

Perhaps this has all drifted down from Donald Trump’s depiction of everybody who is not rich and white, creating a tribe brimming with arrogance and intolerance and just plain meanness at anybody who is not like them.

That is just pure meanness.

Yes, the internet has loosed an avalanche of public meanness on us over the past few decades.

Geese are pure concetrated spite and meanness.

Lately it seems as if he has developed a bit of meanness to him, and his moves don’t look as smooth and therefore feel more legit.

Many of the traits of the large adult son are there—the random meanness, the fury at repercussions that feels like evidence of a coddled child gone to seed—but he has teeth.

You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow.

As film critic David Shipman once wrote of this stage in his career: With his cool, blond baby-face looks and a touch of menace, of meanness, he had established a screen persona as strong as any of the time.

Films must be made to say these things, to counteract the violence and the meanness, to buy time to demobilize the hatreds.

He further disgusted the populace by his meanness and dislike of pomp and display.