It takes, I believe, no meaner qualities than intelligence and goodness to enable a person to be thoroughly, heartily, and satisfactorily amused.
Fear of the contempt of their neighbors would drive all but the meaner class of whites back to work, but the negro came to believe that he would be supported the rest of his life by the government.
Other Indorsed Railroads The story of the other roads that applied for aid is similar, though shorter and of a meaner nature.
The meanerthe convent cell the richer the convent chapel.
At Turin my first feeling was really one of renewed shame for our meaner architectural manners.
They must be out in the sun with their allies round them, like frailer loves and meaner hearts, or they will perish in their strength!
The passion of benign desire, The glorious yearning, lift him higher Than many a soul That mounts a million paces nigher Its meaner goal.
If the great people are languid, the meaner folks are jocund, and the stewards are as proud as the proudest aediles of old Rome.
Nothing is meanerthan a wretch of state; The happy only are the truly great.
Man gotmeaner and smaller while the animals got greater and finer, thought Stud again, and that was why a man could give his best years to raising Jersey bulls like Napoleon, or Percheron stallions like Teddy Roosevelt .
Men get meaner and weaker and filthier, while hogs and cattle get to be better animals every year.
A custodian has been found in some hovel among the orchards, but no meaner object breaks the grassy surface of the terrace from which the building rises, the even masonry exposed from base to dome.
They who before misled the country into a policy false and deadly to the very truth which was its life and strength, by the fear of abolitionism, are making ready to misrule it again by the meaner prejudice of color.
I were alway learned that women were the meaner sort o' th' twain.
The poorer and meaner a man is, the more anxious he is to hev it understood that there's somebody still poorer and meaner than him.
And then, for shame at being handled like a rogue--" Surely there is something in the blood of a gentleman that tempers his spirit to a degree scarcely to be comprehended by men of meaner birth, thinks I.
They grow meaner and meaner as they grow more urbanized.
In her first experience of public life her radiant health and colouring shamed all meaner aids and had been amply sufficient for the brightest lights and the longest hours.
Stars ignored him; meaner lights gave him a bare tolerance.
She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.
Perhaps from henceforth the whole world was to be meaner for her.
To act with doubleness towards a man whose conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
As she had once said to Felix, "A woman must choose meaner things, because onlymeaner things are offered to her.
But with meaner diplomats, who might be mutually useful, such ignorance is often obstructive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meaner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
