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

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2022

And then what it feels like to slowly lose access to those rooms and be kicked out one by one — not meanly, but just because culture has moved on to a degree.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2019

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

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2018

Call would ask, not meanly, just facing facts.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson