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

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2022

I didn’t say it meanly, but it was like, I want to shake some hands and enjoy this moment.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022

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

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2018

Lord Fredrick chuckled, rather meanly, in Penelope’s opinion.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood