Meaner
[miːn]
Examples
- So long as your grand folks wants to buy men and women, I'm as good as they is, said Haley; 'tan't any meaner sellin' on 'em, that 't is buyin'! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Bury me at sea, for I will have no meaner grave than the mighty ocean. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- One instance of this kind came immediately under our notice, where a high-born girl had in early youth given her heart to one of meaner extraction. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The falser he, the truer Joe; the meaner he, the nobler Joe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If, he said--if she takes no notice of me, if she shows I am not in her thoughts, I shall have a worse, a meaner opinion of her than ever. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One great egotism had been swept aside--only to reveal a crowd of meaner egotists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typed by Ewing