meanly
Example Sentences
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“They are cowardly and meanly hiding his body, refusing to give it to his mother and lying miserably,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
It rides that line between enjoying the genre without meanly mocking it.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
I replied, perhaps a little meanly, that this was a star of declining wattage.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2018
“It wasn’t said meanly, it was just to laugh off: Okay, let’s take a different tack,” said Kim.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2018
He was smiling, exhilarated, liberated and meanly enjoying a weapon he did not know lay in his arsenal.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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