(of people,behaviour,etc)displaying selfishness,meanness ,etc

(指人、行为等)自私自利的,卑污的,龌龊的

Love can excuse anything except meanness ; but meanness kills love, cripples even Natural Affection

“爱情”，能够原谅除了“卑鄙”以外的一切，“卑鄙”会杀害“爱情”，甚至损伤“自然的感情”。

be contemptible for one`s meanness

卑鄙不堪.

There is no vice, however unconscious, no virtue, however shy, no touch of meanness or of generosity in your character, that will not pass on to the paper.

不管你如何没意识到缺点，不管你如何想隐瞒的优点，在你的性格中的不论是卑劣或宽厚，没有一项是不会在文字上表现出来的。

Whatever faults he may have, meanness is not one of them.

不管他有什么缺点，可他没有吝啬这一缺点。

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.--Plato

财富为奢侈与怠惰之母，贫穷为卑鄙为邪恶之母，二者都同样会产生不满情绪。--柏拉图

Caring and amazingly supportive, they didn’t want other people’s meanness to drive me into isolation.

父母对我关怀备至，给了我极大的支持，他们不想让别人的冷漠使我陷于孤独。

Well, they were honest eyes, he concluded, and in them was neither smallness nor meanness

好了，他的结论是自己这对眼睛是诚恳的，其中没有小气和卑劣。

She is above meanness and deceit.

她不至于做卑鄙和骗人的事情。

Her character was compounded in equal parts of meanness and generosity.

她的为人慷慨吝啬参半.

The businessman is a proverb for meanness .

那个商人因行为卑鄙而恶名远扬。

That’s a typical illustration of his meanness .

那是说明他为人卑鄙的典型例子。

You’ll never cure him of his meanness ;it’s in his bones.

你决不可能治好他那小气的毛病，他本性就是如此。

He is above such meanness .

他不会做这种卑鄙的事.

He is above meanness and deceit.

他不屑于做卑鄙和欺骗的事情。

His meanness in bred in the bone.

他的吝啬是天生的。

He would treat his servants, his own children and even my grandpa alike with meanness and indifference, not to say with ruthlessness

他对待仆人，对待自己的儿女，以及对待我的祖父都是同样的吝啬而疏远，甚至于无情。

He stooped to such meanness .

他堕落到如此卑鄙。

He stooped to such meanness

他堕落得这般卑鄙。

He is contemptible for his meanness

他很卑劣，实在可鄙。

He never descends to such meanness

他决不干那种卑鄙事。

He never descends to such meanness .

他决不会自贬到如此卑鄙。

His meanness was contemptible.

他吝啬得令人不齿

William is above meanness .

威廉不会做出卑鄙的事。

We became quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness

我知道这个人不是个东西，集骄傲、贪婪、残暴、卑鄙于一身。

Whatever fault he may have,meanness is not one of them.s

无论他可能会有什么缺点，但卑鄙绝不是其中之一

Xinhua News Agency, Washington, August 29--Today the United States severely criticized Europe Union for its meanness in providing food and fund to Afghan refugees, calling EU’s executive body EU Council a “hopeless bureaucratic organization”

新华社华盛顿8月29日电美国29日严厉批评欧盟在给阿富汗难民食品和资金援助时表现“吝啬”，并把欧盟执行机构欧盟委员会称作“没有希望的官僚机构”。

I decide not to ask her for a loan in view of her proverbial meanness .

因为她小气得出了名，我决定不找她借钱。

The meanness of anonymity gave a shuddering obscenity to the moment

这种匿名的卑鄙行为使他一时觉得下流得让人吃不消。

He will not stick at any meanness in making-money.

只要能赚钱他什么卑鄙的勾当都能干得出来。