meanly

Example Sentences

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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

Among them is Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector who accused the Moon government of “meanly” passing responsibility for strained inter-Korean ties to him and fellow activists.

From Seattle Times

Never meanly, of course; think moderator of a lively panel discussion.

From Washington Post

Isabel says she was treated meanly by other kids at school and reminded every single day that her skin colour was different.

From BBC

In such little arenas, our ideals and fears play out, grandly or meanly.

From Washington Post