Sentence examples for quite mean from inspiring English sources

They don't quite mean what we want them to mean.

It does not quite mean what it seems to mean.

But like Woody Allen, corduroy doesn't quite mean what it once did.

And though he danced, the moves were perfunctory, as if he didn't quite mean them.

Kem was scatting a bit Saturday night, even if he didn't quite mean to.

British people may seem to apologise a lot, but it doesn't quite mean the same thing here.

It just wasn't quite meant to be today".

The creatures in The Walking Dead are designed to be killed by your hand, but — for once — you're not quite meant to have fun doing it.

With apologies to Simon and Garfunkel, those words never quite meant much to me when I sang them so many years ago.

It stings, in a different way, to see Aunt Lydia keeping watch over her with an intimacy we expect, but aren't quite meant to understand.

They write, to coin a sneery phrase, about "first world problems", and they make little apology for their protagonists being quite mean-minded, self-interested people.