Nor does the broken-spirited meanness of Israel at all resemble the conception, popular in every nation, of a virtuous and heroic antiquity, a golden age.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Now, you eat this-and don't get the idee you can cover up any meanness of Man Fleetwood's; not from me, anyhow.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
I pride myself on my meanness, and I'll not be tromped on.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe