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,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

It’s a meanly suggestive line, and it haunts the movie’s every subsequent frame; you can never be sure whether its three vignettes are being told in sequential order or happening completely independently of each other.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2023

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

I replied, perhaps a little meanly, that this was a star of declining wattage.

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2018

But the teacher wasn’t laughing meanly, and suddenly it seemed like nobody was trying to be mean, just having a giggle.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata