meanly

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024

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

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2022

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

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2018

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