meanie

Example Sentences

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Blackballing him from USA House was akin to screaming in his face that he’s a big meanie and the president wasn’t going to take it any more.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

Curiously, the character the musical represents most fully isn’t uncertain Andy or meanie Miranda, but cucumber-cool Nigel.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

If the Houston board, a government entity, had confined itself to calling Wilson a stinker and a meanie, this would merely have been government exercising its right to speak its mind.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021

My husband then began egging our children on with comments about how it’s too bad we can’t have a pet because mom is being a meanie.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2021

Being the meanie that he was, he moved slowly, getting great pleasure from Father Time’s fear.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles