Out of sheer meanness, Archer thought, but he held his tongue out of a desire not to add to Trip's hurt.

A woman like Delia was perfectly willing to do such things out of sheer meanness.

Havel had hunted bear; he knew the vitality and sheer stubborn meanness of a wounded bruin.

IT is hard to think of a topic in recent years that has attracted more misinformation, more convoluted reasoning or more sheer meanness than teen-age pregnancy.

Lacks the poetry of baseball and the sheer meanness of arena ball, but it's got speed and drama.

We should thank the gods for the poverty of the human imagination-for the sheer meanness of this man's ambitions-and that our opportunity to stop him has come so soon.

Blocked the plan out of sheer meanness.

He talks about the triumphs, but what it all comes down to is this: that he has found God and discovered the sheer meanness of his professional style.

The museum provides some context to clarify that the United States did not drop firebombs out of sheer meanness.

Two correspondents for The Times report from a nation whose ruling classes, having chucked Communism, seem to run on sheer meanness.