meanest
Example Sentences
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"Candidates should not try to be the meanest sheriff."
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
But the standout character is "queen bee" Regina, head of the Plastics clique and the meanest of the mean girls.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
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
He delivers the meanest quip in a respectful movie when he tells Reed, “I take back every single bad thing I’ve been saying about you … to myself, in private.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025
Joe grew into the meanest, angriest child any Lacks had ever known, and the family started saying something must have happened to his brain while he was growing inside Henrietta alongside that cancer.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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