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 while waiting for the trace of” poison to disappear, Navalnaya said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024

I didn’t say it meanly, but it was like, I want to shake some hands and enjoy this moment.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022

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

Bohrer oddly neglects to include in his account of RFK’s speech at the 1964 Democratic convention this bit of poetry, about Bobby’s fallen brother but also, meanly and a little sneakily, about LBJ.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2017

He was smiling, exhilarated, liberated and meanly enjoying a weapon he did not know lay in his arsenal.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy