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  • adjective superlative form of mean: most mean.
  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of mean.

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Examples

  • ELIZABETH BLAIR: K'Naan grew up in Mogadishu on what he calls the meanest streets in the universe.

    Somali Rapper K'Naan Schools American MCs 2009

  • Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • So it is so hard to name the meanest and most evil person that I have read about.

    Angels' Blood Countdown: Deidre Knight - Red Fire Nalini Singh 2009

  • HAMMER: Well, tonight, she is being called the meanest player in women ` s soccer.

    CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2009 2009

  • In his defense, he was known as the meanest son of a bitch to ever practice audiology in Edinburgh.

    New Standards for Head Man in Clan 2006

  • But now she's fighting back and she doesn't want to be known as the meanest Democratic candidate and Barack Obama today has started a Web site cataloging what he calls her negative attacks on him.

    CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2007 2007

  • But now she's fighting back and she doesn't want to be known as the meanest Democratic candidate and Barack Obama today had started a Web site cataloging what he calls her negative attacks on him.

    CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2007 2007

  • NGUYEN: What Nevada's governor calls the meanest, ugliest wildfire he has seen is still burning near Carson City, the state capital.

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2004 2004

  • Habitations are thinly scattered in this barren territory, and a full mile away from the meanest was the stone cottage of Mother Carke.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • In Nevada, orange flames amid fields of green; an army of firefighters beating back a blaze of what is being called the meanest, ugliest wildfire to hit Carson City, the state's capitol.

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2004 2004

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