A.meanness, stinginess, Thphr.Char.10, Plb.31.27.16.
II. pettiness, Pl.R.486a, Arist.Metaph.995a10, Plot.1.4.7; hair-splitting, Isoc.13.8, etc.: pl., meticulous arguments, 'logic-chopping', Pl.Hp.Ma. 304b; minutiae, in Art, D.H.Comp.25.
2. disparagement, depreciating language, Isoc.15.2.