0 the quality of being unwilling to give or share things, especially money
There have been cuts of financial meanness and attitudinal changes towards overseas students, technical aid and transfers.
There is a great deal of meanness in these matters.
I do not say that out of meanness.
We believe that much more should be done for children because our meanness to children is the main cause of family poverty.
In the whole context of spending, it is a petty meanness that will hit the poorest and most disadvantaged.
The background is not one of tightening financial constraint or of meanness; it is a response to the problems of recession.
I hope that there will be no mistaken meanness on the question of popularising the election.
What a piece of meanness it is to apply that to that country of all countries with its present level of unemployment.
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