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And more than a few of my closest, meanest friends.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

"Candidates should not try to be the meanest sheriff."

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

He delivers the meanest quip in a respectful movie when he tells Reed, “I take back every single bad thing I’ve been saying about you … to myself, in private.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

I was behind the wheel of the biggest, meanest, greenest, most American street-legal machine in existence.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

“And that is probably the meanest thing you’ve ever said to me.”

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez




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