meanie

Example Sentences

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In 1996, Dole was trying to smooth the hard edges on his reputation as a meanie.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 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

“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

Since the diva had slept in a crouch On a too-tiny rollaway couch, She came on like a meanie, Which suited Puccini, Who’d cast her as Tosca the Grouch.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 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