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I cannot have my champion think so meanly of himself.
I can understand why he was away a lot of time, Strand thought, meanly.
It was only towards herself that she'd ever seen him act meanly.
It was a small room into which they looked, very meanly furnished.
If you like, it's a record of a mean life, meanly lived.
"Good men ever interpret themselves too meanly," said the physician.
You're in for some surprises later on, young man, Strand thought, meanly.
As is the playwright's style, some vignettes are meanly funny.
I was so proud, especially when Nudge snarled down meanly.
You're going to have to clean that up," he said, grinning meanly.
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.
Why, then, should you think so meanly of him?"
Do you suppose he can be the same man who has so meanly treated my brother-in-law?"
The latest teenage fashion of seventy years ago, Gail thought meanly.
Was he, as so many have meanly claimed, paying for the rough life he led?
I shrugged; he grinned at me - less meanly than before, I thought.
"Oh, like you're not a freak yourself," Nudge said meanly.
Imagination likes to play jokes, but it plays them meanly and unfairly.
He seemed disconcerted; at which I was meanly pleased.
The others scold him meanly for this, causing him to run away.
They would never take me; they can't think so meanly of us as that."
Nick slammed the door so hard it made Link's head bounce, for which he was very meanly glad.
He breathes my air," said the guy, and his jerk friends laughed meanly.
He was a slow learner, true enough, but he died meanly, for greed.
The little house was horrid inside; small and dark and meanly furnished.