The phrase "a man of mere" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in a context where you want to describe a man characterized by something minimal or insignificant, but it needs to be followed by a noun to clarify the meaning.
Example: "He was a man of mere words, never taking action to back them up."
Alternatives: "a man of little" or "a man of scant".
Although his opponents have tried to attack him as a man of "mere" words, Obama has returned eloquence to its essential place in American politics.
Barack Obama has been denounced again and again as a privileged wordsmith, a man of mere words who has "authored" two books (to use Sarah Palin's verb), and done little else.
Subsequently, revisionist authors would formulate accusations against Moreno, depicting him as a British agent and a man of mere theoretical European ideas without a strong relation with the South American context.
This rough apprenticeship on a seal-hunting schooner does, however, make a man of a mere literary man, and in the end he is able to accomplish labours that might almost be compared to those of Gilliatt on the rock.
"He helped his fellow cadets reach their dreams and their goals, and I gotta tell you, that is pretty lofty for a man of a mere 23 years of age," Hughes said.
Among men, it is more elusive, and the alert, curious, intelligent man I have described has an even greater advantage, perhaps, that the man of mere physical vigor.
The ambition was to make his audience view him in a different light: as a man of conscience rather than a mere purveyor of exuberant revivalist rock'n' roll, the guise in which he had made his appearance earlier in the decade.
Maybe so; but what about the man of mere talent?
But here comes trouble, in a neat, fast package: Don Logan Ben Kingsleyy), a man whose mere name, like that of Keyser Söze, is enough to bring any civilized company to a lurching halt.
Michael Gove, a nightmarish melting wax-work of a man, was educated mere miles away from your humble narrator.
According to those authors, Moreno was a British agent, a demagogic caudillo, a paranoid, a mere man of theoretical ideas applying European principles that failed in the local context, wrongly portrayed as leader of the Revolution by the liberal historiography.
