Meanest

Examples

• What a variety of labour, too, is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen! Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By the mass, thou meanest the fair Jewess! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If thou meanest yonder Saxon churls, said Front-de-Boeuf, their ransom will depend upon other terms than thine. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He tries to do it; he says he'll bring me down and humble me, and he puts me to just the hardest, meanest and dirtiest work, on purpose! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• My own convictions led me to believe that the hidden contents of the parchment concealed a transaction of the meanest and the most fraudulent kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You shall be the meanest slave in the service of the goddess you have attempted to humiliate. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• On Egdon, coldest and meanest kisses were at famine prices, and where was a mouth matching hers to be found? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But now vice has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I am astonished myself, as never before have I broken a promise once made, even to the meanest person. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• George was taken home, and put to the meanest drudgery of the farm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Charles I, who was probably one of the meanest and most treacherous occupants the English throne has ever known, was frightened by the London crowds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Tom Raikes happens to be one of the meanest men in England, at least so I have heard from several of his _soi-disant_ male friends. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The meanest streets are strewed with truncated columns, broken capitals--Corinthian and Ionic, and sparkling fragments of granite or porphyry. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I know what thou meanest. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You are, in all and everything, the meanest man on earth, was my civil remark. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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