Sentence examples for out of meanness from inspiring English sources

It's possible that the people you're meeting aren't ignoring you out of meanness.

Mr. Bashirov recalled how a group of young Russian men, out of meanness, tore down a wash basin that he had built for migrants at a construction site.

"I had one of the schoolteachers tell me after Dave got famous that the kids get by with a lot more now, because they can see it's not out of meanness, just mischievousness.

Out of meanness, she wouldn't let her little sister drink the water until she'd put it in a saucepan and set it over the charcoal grill to boil, which took a very, very long time, until the moon was fat and bright in the sky.

His teacher assured me he was using the word as a descriptor and not out of meanness.

Obama "birther" conspiracists portray the President as the "other," a foreigner, someone who cannot understand "real" Americans, out of meanness, political strategy or stupidity.

The meaning of meanness: Popularity, competition, and conflict among junior high school girls.

Being a woman online in a Christian feminist space brings out a really bananas level of meanness.

Dismissing what he called a "cottage industry of meanness out there," he said, "I love Ann".

Since there's a certain brand of meanness that involves tossing out fake compliments, you want to make sure the person you're complimenting knows you're being serious.

It's bad enough that we have the death penalty, it's so archaic, but then to turn around and say, "No, we're not going to feed you," just out of pure meanness or something.