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 while waiting for the trace of” poison to disappear, Navalnaya said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
It rides that line between enjoying the genre without meanly mocking it.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
Bohrer oddly neglects to include in his account of RFK’s speech at the 1964 Democratic convention this bit of poetry, about Bobby’s fallen brother but also, meanly and a little sneakily, about LBJ.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2017
Everyone is looking at the camera except him and me, because Nicky is attending to his rivet and I’m looking at Nicky, slyly, face to the camera but eyes sliding meanly to the right.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2017
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
