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Adjective
meaner
- comparative form of mean: more mean
- Ivanhoe (1952 film)
- Prince John: "Your foe has bloodied you, sir knight. Will you concede defeat? You fight too well to die so mean a death. Will you not throw in your lot with me instead?
- Ivanhoe: "That would be an even meaner death, Your Grace."
Noun
meaner (plural meaners)
- One who means or intends something.
2006, M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan Webster, Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse, page 50:By his acts of meaning, and those of other individual meaners, the social reality is created, maintained in good order, and continuously shaped and modified.
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