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

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 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

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

Call would ask, not meanly, just facing facts.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson