meanest
Example Sentences
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"Candidates should not try to be the meanest sheriff."
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
Given Chelsea boast the meanest defence in the division with just six goals conceded from 12 games, being clinical at the other end could be a lethal combination.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026
Yet none found the back of the net, leaving the game to be decided on penalties, the cruelest, meanest, most unfair — and most exciting — way to determine a winner.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
Readers eventually learn how Odd, whom Buddy describes as “the meanest human creature in my experience,” ends up at Buddy’s home for the holiday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
“Like here”—Gilly now felt forced to justify an opinion which she didn’t in the least hold—“like here at the end, ‘the meanest flower that blows.’
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
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