The two un-virtuous extremes are wastefulness and stinginess (or meanness). Samuel Johnson wrote in "The False Alarm" that "[a]n infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty". Furthermore, he praised her "all-around meanness" and the "hilarity of her singing". However, he seems to have some sense of morality, often reprimanding Tam for his meanness. In spite of the meanness of the village, it was awash in Malian gold. Cinderella forgives her stepsisters for their past meanness. He went on to define meanness of style as the deliberate avoidance of unusual words. Mayer could be a monster, but he was not mean for the sake of meanness. Terra subverts the humans, causing them to inexorably sink into meanness and war. Big in mind and in body, he was incapable of little meanness. His personality serves to counteract the meanness of Calvin Radford. Some town thugs shoot him to death out of pure meanness. They are spirited but without meanness, and even stallions can be ridden by children. But such was the conduct of this master of meanness. Some studies show that internet meanness is more common among girls than boys.