"mean streak" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1911, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, chapter 1, in The Crux",
          "text": "\"He's worse than mischievous,\" Mr. Lane assured her sourly. \"There's a mean streak in that family.\"",
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          "ref": "1993 May 14, Janet Maslin, “Film: A Western in the Hands of a Revisionist”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-09-14",
          "text": "The film's considerable taste for graphic, noisy violence becomes clear during this tumultuous opening. So does its mean streak, as the Colonel delivers outrageous insults to one and all.",
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          "ref": "2016 March 10, Paul Hayward, “Sport: Eddie Jones takes England siege mentality to the extreme”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2017-09-14",
          "text": "England’s combative coach . . . wants aggression, a touch of the outlaw, a mean streak.",
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        "A defect in character characterized by persistent nastiness, viciousness, or malevolence."
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        "(idiomatic) A defect in character characterized by persistent nastiness, viciousness, or malevolence."
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          "ref": "1993 May 14, Janet Maslin, “Film: A Western in the Hands of a Revisionist”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-09-14",
          "text": "The film's considerable taste for graphic, noisy violence becomes clear during this tumultuous opening. So does its mean streak, as the Colonel delivers outrageous insults to one and all.",
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          "ref": "2016 March 10, Paul Hayward, “Sport: Eddie Jones takes England siege mentality to the extreme”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2017-09-14",
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