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"text": "Teacher kept me in after school again. What a meanie!"
},
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"text": "That meanie wouldn't even lend me the bus fare."
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"ref": "2010, Molly Ivins, Nothin' But Good Times Ahead, page 50",
"text": "The indigent health-care bill died in the waning moments of the session, killed by Republican Representative Bill Ceverha of Dallas, a notorious meanie.",
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"ref": "2012, James Ferreira, Google Script: Enterprise Application Essentials, page 45",
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"(informal, chiefly childish) A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy."
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"roman": "seoi¹ jan⁴",
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"sense": "unkind person",
"word": "意地悪"
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"ref": "2006, Chad Dell, The Revenge of Hatpin Mary",
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"ref": "2014, Sondra Forsyth, Candida Cleanse",
"text": "It starts out as a friendly yeast among the beneficial microbes in your intestines but morphs into a meanie if you indulge in what is called the Western diet—a diet high in sugar, red meat, white flour, and processed foods.",
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"(informal) A villain."
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"text": "Teacher kept me in after school again. What a meanie!"
},
{
"text": "That meanie wouldn't even lend me the bus fare."
},
{
"ref": "2010, Molly Ivins, Nothin' But Good Times Ahead, page 50",
"text": "The indigent health-care bill died in the waning moments of the session, killed by Republican Representative Bill Ceverha of Dallas, a notorious meanie.",
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},
{
"ref": "2012, James Ferreira, Google Script: Enterprise Application Essentials, page 45",
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"text": "If you like your wrestling rough, we've had besides such old and revered roughies as Lisowski, Schmidt, Herman, etc., some great new meanies.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Bob Sloan, The Middle of Nowhere",
"text": "More energy for Bliss to pursue the depraved denizens of Gotham, the meanies who lurked in the shadows, who left the messes and spills he and his partner Ward were constantly cleaning up.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Sondra Forsyth, Candida Cleanse",
"text": "It starts out as a friendly yeast among the beneficial microbes in your intestines but morphs into a meanie if you indulge in what is called the Western diet—a diet high in sugar, red meat, white flour, and processed foods.",
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "seoi¹ jan⁴",
"sense": "unkind person",
"word": "衰人"
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"sense": "unkind person",
"tags": [
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"word": "gemenerik"
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"sense": "unkind person",
"word": "ilkimys"
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"sense": "unkind person",
"tags": [
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"word": "Fiesling"
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "cāṇḍāl",
"sense": "unkind person",
"word": "चांडाल"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "unkind person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "suarachán"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ijiwaru",
"sense": "unkind person",
"word": "意地悪"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "zljúka",
"sense": "unkind person",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
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"word": "злю́ка"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unkind person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "duende"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unkind person",
"tags": [
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"word": "arpía"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unkind person",
"tags": [
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"word": "elaking"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unkind person",
"tags": [
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"word": "stygging"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "caṇḍāl",
"sense": "unkind person",
"word": "چنڈال"
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"word": "meanie"
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