Mean

close greedy mercenary mingy miserly niggard parsimonious penny-pinching penurious rapacious scrimpy selfish stingy tight tight-fisted

bad-tempered callous cantankerous churlish contemptible dangerous despicable difficult dirty disagreeable dishonorable down evil formidable hard hard-nosed ignoble ill-tempered infamous knavish liverish lousy low-down and dirty malicious malign nasty perfidious pesky rotten rough rugged scurrilous shameless sinking snide sour the lowest touch treacherous troublesome ugly unfriendly unpleasant unscrupulous vexatious vicious vile

base beggarly common contemptible déclassé down-at-heel hack humble ignoble ineffectual inferior insignificant limited low lowborn lowly mediocre menial miserable modest narrow obscure ordinary paltry petty pitiful plebeian proletarian run-down scruffy second-class second-rate seedy servile shabby sordid squalid tawdry undistinguished unwashed vulgar wretched

common conventional halfway intermediate medial median mediocre medium middle middling normal popular standard traditional

balance center compromise happy medium median middle middle course midpoint norm par

add up adumbrate allude allude to argue attest augur betoken connote denote designate determine drive at express foreshadow foretell herald hint at imply import indicate intimate involve name point to portend presage promise purport represent say speak of spell stand for suggest symbolize tell the meaning of touch on