| 词汇 | example_english_meanness |
| 释义 | Examples of meannessThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. There have been cuts of financial meanness and attitudinal changes towards overseas students, technical aid and transfers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a great deal of meanness in these matters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not say that out of meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We believe that much more should be done for children because our meanness to children is the main cause of family poverty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the whole context of spending, it is a petty meanness that will hit the poorest and most disadvantaged. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The background is not one of tightening financial constraint or of meanness; it is a response to the problems of recession. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that there will be no mistaken meanness on the question of popularising the election. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What a piece of meanness it is to apply that to that country of all countries with its present level of unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am glad that sort of meanness of attitude will cease to exist when this proposal is put into effect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that is the height, the depth, the breadth, and the length of meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is that not an act of meanness by his party, aimed at our party? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The authorities there ought to feel ashamed of the meanness and the cruelty of the course of action which they pursued. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why does she show such enthusiasm for this measure of combined stupidity and meanness? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One particularly irritating meanness in the proposed allocation of seats is that when the proportions of increase are taken, there is a fractional difference. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must condemn the extraordinary meanness of the treatment of old-age pensioners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is this not really the height of meanness? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is a clever man, but there is a meanness of spirit in every political utterance that he makes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is that future unfair because of some meanness with the figure this year? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both subsections seem to carry meanness and penny-pinching to a totally unreasonable degree. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Employers, castigated by them day in and day out, year in and year out, for their meanness are now being enalised if they pay more. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They demonstrate that once again envy and meanness have been elevated into a principle of government. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most authorities have only one thing in common and that is that their educational maintenance grants are totally inadequate and show a degree of meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Despite the meanness of current benefit policy, the social security costs of unemployment are high. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should the parsimony, selfishness and meanness of the dead retain their paralysing hand on the living community to-day? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have seldom known meanness to pay in politics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no question of meanness about their own. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Meanness and parsimony are a consistent theme in all three subjects. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the scheme appears to be started in a spirit of meanness, it will destroy any hope of the voluntary code working properly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely that was a remarkable piece of meanness which in retrospect cannot be justified. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The meanness is that this will all be done through the employer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The meanness to employed hospital staff is in stark contrast to the treatment of locum and agency staff. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such meanness should not be pandered to; it should be resisted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does she understand that she adds insult to injury by apologising for the meanness of this year's settlement, which does nothing to help schools? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am amazed that he has overlooked a piece of financial meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The meanness of the proposal can be well illustrated by looking at the figures involved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am worried that the persistent economic failure of our country is beginning to breed a new spirit of meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In face of a situation like this, parsimony and meanness become an unforgivable crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No little provincial newspaper could ever have sunk to such meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have mentioned the discouragement of nursery education and the meanness of the milk and meals provision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I submit that meanness could not reach a lower level. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She referred to the meanness of the proposition that one return journey to arrange or attend a funeral was adequate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot help thinking that there is a certain amount of—he will forgive me for saying—meanness in this decision. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To me that smacks of a certain meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We charge them with positive meanness in not trying at least to reach the maximum rather than keep to the bare minimum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, there have been general accusations of government meanness in this field and claims that, by this policy, we have been saving money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I tried to point out the generosity of mind on this side as opposed to the meanness of mind on that side. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Can they say that it is entirely due to the meanness of the landlords? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, we are much more interested in the meanness of this change as it affects those on very low incomes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the same time, their meanness did not stop there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another meanness involves the postgraduate quotas which are to be made permanent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he agree that, by his meanness in nursery education, he is depriving hundreds of young children of educational opportunities and of care and attention? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has certainly demonstrated persistence, stubbornness and meanness of spirit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With typical meanness, they have decided to respond not by generating employment, growth and new investment, but by cutting benefits and making the poor poorer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was it meanness, incompetence, or indifference; or a mixture of all three? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, the prime meanness is the refusal to extend the value of tobacco tokens to the old-age pensioners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a peculiar meanness about the way in which the provisions have been drafted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There ought to be nothing in the shape of public robbery, and there ought to be nothing in the shape of meanness about the transaction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some cases that may merely be avoidance, meanness or laziness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some cases it is merely meanness or the thought that they will get away with it that enables them to do that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not argue for a reduction in the aid budget because of meanness or lack of charity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They gained a lot of experience and took stories of the meanness of farmers around the whole area in a very happy way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is the height of meanness that he has to pay for his uniform to be pressed when it is issued to him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was no meanness, no pettiness, no self-seeking in him, or possible in him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I stress that there is no spirit of meanness in the selection in the scheme of the period of two rather than three years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What steps are to be taken to expose the meanness of men who are in receipt of at least £96 a week? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has been talking about the meanness of certain local authorities in their scales of relief. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The block grant proposal puts a premium on meanness and a penalty on enlightened policy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us compare the waste in land and housing with the meanness shown towards war widows. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If so, the charge of meanness is transferred from these benches to the benches opposite. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The great thing is for people to give according to their means, and not according to their meanness, which is sometimes done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole thing seems to savour of meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot understand our meanness to the police. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He accused them of every kind of political crime, treachey, and meanness; and altogether he entirely suited his tone to the taste of his audience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The water troughs in the pen were so high that the animals were unable to drink from them—what meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You have nothing to lose but the meanness accorded to you in your magnificent profession. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They knew there would be all this meanness, all this increased unemployment, all these increases in food prices and these higher rates, rents and fares. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do not these increases demonstrate the appalling economic meanness of the abolition of the electricity discount scheme? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The stock issued has the added refinement of meanness in being exceptionally liable to capital gains tax on encashment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have received several letters revealing the meanness of the redundancy terms offered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regret to say that it has always been stained by meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Good; but what happens when thrift becomes meanness? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, they are often humiliated and embarrassed by our thoughtless meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With public money we have to strike a line between meanness and extravagance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another example of inequity in child support arrangements under these regulations is the meanness of the child benefit increase. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps it can be argued that it is a piece of bureaucratic and therefore necessary meanness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall be remov'd from all our friends and acquaintance, and our poverty and meanness will by that means sit more easy upon us. How much meanness would you not commit if the aim was to stamp out meanness? Meanness may detract from sublimity, and that is characterised as reliance upon phrases" debased by common use". In this tiny, internal room there is no sense of spatial meanness or claustrophobia. Players are assumed to reciprocate niceness and also meanness. Wordsworth is at pains to point out that his is neither a recipe for nor a justification of" triviality" or" meanness": for each of his poems has a worthy purpose. The new settlers acquired a reputation for hard bargaining, thrift and even meanness that persists to this day: they are said to have short arms and deep pockets. I suggest that these petty meannesses cause great bitterness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been his panacea for all the unfairnesses and meannesses to which attention has been drawn, clause by clause. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Attempts to reduce it by petty meannesses which cause hardship far out of proportion to the money that they save do not solve the problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Newspapers have sent journalists through the length and breadth of the land to accumulate evidence of the meannesses and the tragic effects associated with this test. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He knows it is wrong, and that we are just perpetuating another of those terrible meannesses concerning the farming community of which there have been too many over the years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, the extent of their meanness is two years full development. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In meanness of spirit they have made the great refusal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Incidentally, one change might be dubbed the metric meanness test. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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