Sentence examples for it would be mean from inspiring English sources

It would be mean to criticise the surface though, with the match representing something of a triumph for the groundstaff given the devastation across Chennai that was wreaked by Monday's cyclone; the hot coals they used to dry out the strip took any life out of it but it is better than no match at all.

On occasion it would be mean "divergence" between Wales and England, he said.

He wasn't technically a partner, but we quickly realized that he was one de facto that among us his opinion carried as much weight as any of ours and that it would be mean of us to delay recognizing this officially.

It would be mean to not write about the best breakfast we've had here.

Even if he had an idea how Walter White's fate would be decided, Eve thought it would be mean to pry, and avoided the subject during dinner breaks.

And while it would be magical to feel that level of accomplishment it would be mean sacrificing too many other experiences along the way.

"It would be mean-spirited".

It would be mean-spirited to want it to.

It's on a BBC budget, so it would be mean-spirited to snigger about the ageing makeup.

Yet it would be mean-spirited as well as foolish not to acknowledge the sheer pleasure of so many conference delegates in Brighton this week.

Partly, it's that the one very good book now seems so very good a book that it would be mean-spirited to ask for too many more books like it.