She felt how much more precious was such a sentiment, than that meaner kind which would have borne with the imperfection for her sake, and have been guilty of treason to holy love, by degrading its perfect idea to the level of the actual.

Everybody turned against him and said the meanest kind of things about him, and it graduly broke his heart - yes, and he was so worried and distressed that often he warn't hardly in his right mind.

But even then it's a mean kind of fun, and more like the rising edge of a speed trip than anything peaceful or pleasant.

His final focus is on spite, the meanest kind of revenge.

What could be thought to count, or have even the meanest kind of value in action or thought if the foundations on which his house of belief was erected was found to be sinking and imperilling the sacrosanct structure it supported.

It's blackmail, of the meanest kind.

The way she clawed at that five quid was the clue to her troubles ; that and her ignorance of everything but the nastiest kind of vice and the meanest kind of crime.

He chuckled, but it was a mean kind of humor.

But methinks his brothers are of a duller and meaner kind; they dare not the crimes of the Robber Captain.

It was the meanest kind of luck!