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meanly

[meen-lee] / ˈmin li /
ADVERB
meagerly
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Plenty of working families are raising children and having fruitful social lives on median incomes or even less: Living thriftily is not the same as living penuriously or meanly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

“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 rides that line between enjoying the genre without meanly mocking it.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022

We’ve been meaning to ask — or we’re meanly asking.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021

After that, he’d stayed upstairs when Tim came over, and was meanly glad when he and Trip began to drift apart.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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