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Discover LudwigThe phrase "be so mean" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to somebody who is deliberately unkind or unfair, or even aggressive. For example, "I can't believe she said that to me - she is always so mean!".
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They can be so mean about it!
"I just didn't know people could be so mean about it".
"I think back about how the alcohol and drugs got me to be so mean.
Did we really have to be so mean in reviewing the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber?
"When I stop at a gas station or red light, people can be so mean," she said.
"Honestly, I thought, how can adults be so mean about a 9-year-old boy?" she says.
This new story explains that maybe if she hadn't had her heart broken by a certain royal someone back in the day, she wouldn't be so mean.
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Thus Mr. Solondz addresses the very discomfort we feel watching films like his own, since one question posed by an angry student in Vi's creative writing class -- "why do people have to be so mean-spirited?" -- is often asked of Mr. Solondz himself.
"No be so?" (means - Isn't it so?) My Nigerian pidgin English returns.
Ignore rudeness, learn and reply with kind-hearted but witty retorts, or simply put them on the back foot by asking why they have to be so mean-spirited but don't engage in a discussion.
Kids are so mean!
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