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meanly

[meen-lee] / ˈmin li /
ADVERB
meagerly
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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’s a meanly suggestive line, and it haunts the movie’s every subsequent frame; you can never be sure whether its three vignettes are being told in sequential order or happening completely independently of each other.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2023

“The enemies of Russia meanly, stealthily killed her,” Dugin said in the statement, which also praised his daughter as a patriot and philosopher.

From Washington Post Aug. 22, 2022

Now there's an undertone of dread that we could "meanly lose, the last best hope of earth," as Abraham Lincoln warned.

From Salon May 16, 2021

Lord Fredrick chuckled, rather meanly, in Penelope’s opinion.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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