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meanie

[mee-nee] / ˈmi ni /


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TikTok turbocharged that trend, with the infamous green meanie matching or beating his red rival in holiday clout.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 25, 2025

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

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

“Evil doesn’t care if you’re nice,” he declares, which is certainly the case with the villain of the piece, a meanie with a robotic claw named — what else?

From Seattle Times Dec. 23, 2019

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

According to the letter, Twitter is a bunch of big meanies that aren’t giving Musk the information he needs to close the transaction, specifically about bots and spam.

From The Verge Jun. 10, 2022

Even by the meanies in the City of Brotherly Love, who have alternated between serenading Simmons with lusty boos and defending his game through clenched teeth.

From Washington Post Sep. 25, 2021

Another gadget is an inflatable hug that immobilizes meanies in its enveloping embrace.

From Seattle Times Dec. 23, 2019

Meanies do as meanies see, and Mr. Merkley never said a peep as Mr. Reid set a new low standard for public behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2016

And there is, despite the meanies, much good whirring around cyberspace.

From New York Times Aug. 23, 2014




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