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meanness

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the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm
  • nothing more than unprovoked meanness drove him to smash the child's toy

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“Meanness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meanness. Accessed 30 Nov. 2021.

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