Mean
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
- Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
- Watch out for her, she's mean. I said good morning to her, and she punched me in the nose.
- Miserly; stingy.
- He's so mean. I've never seen him spend so much as five pounds on presents for his children.
- Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
- It was mean to steal the girl's piggy bank, but he just had to get uptown and he had no cash of his own.
- Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
- It must have been a mean typhoon that levelled this town.
- Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
- Your mother can roll a mean cigarette.
- He hits a mean backhand.
- Low in quality; inferior.
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