noun
1. the quality of being deliberately mean
• Syn: ↑meanness
• Hypernyms: ↑malevolence, ↑malevolency, ↑malice
2. unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
• Derivationally related forms: ↑beastly
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
• Hypernyms: ↑nastiness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.