meanly
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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
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
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