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,” 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

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

“Deleted my tweets about a certain performance because it was made in humor but taken way more meanly than intended. Not out to diss artists.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2017

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

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