meanie
Americannoun
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a mean, small-minded, petty, or selfish person.
The children said their teacher was a real meanie.
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a villain, as in a movie or book.
Syndrome is the meanie in “The Incredibles.”
noun
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a miserly or stingy person
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a nasty ill-tempered person
Etymology
Origin of meanie
Example Sentences
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The green meanie is up to his old tricks in this musical adaptation of the animated 1966 TV special based on the children’s book.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2021
If the Houston board, a government entity, had confined itself to calling Wilson a stinker and a meanie, this would merely have been government exercising its right to speak its mind.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021
My husband then began egging our children on with comments about how it’s too bad we can’t have a pet because mom is being a meanie.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2021
“Evil doesn’t care if you’re nice,” he declares, which is certainly the case with the villain of the piece, a meanie with a robotic claw named — what else?
From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2019
Being the meanie that he was, he moved slowly, getting great pleasure from Father Time’s fear.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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