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1902 Goshen (Indiana) Daily Democrat 7 May 3/2 His mother had come upon the boy and his sister quarreling, had heard the two call each other ‘Meanie’ and ‘Two-face’.

1927 H. C. Brown In Golden Nineties iii. 107 It was whispered by some old meanies that many of the five-foot floral offerings were purchased by the actors themselves and sent to the theatre with fictitious names attached.

1928 J. P. McEvoy Show Girl xiii. 212/1 This old meany..last night..found himself, much to his aged surprise, in the Klaw Theatre.

1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. i. 34 He was at heart, she felt, a cunning old meanie.

1990 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 21 Oct. 3/4 Does it upset him when he's called a Scrooge and a meany?

2000 Daily Herald (Chicago, Illinois) 9 Jan. f3 2/2 Even though papa was a meanie David needed his approval.

1932 N.Y. Hush 5 Nov. 2/4 It took two women and a man, the meanies, to drag her loving husband from her side.

1966 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Meanie or meany, an ungracious unattractive person: as..a theatrical or literary villain.

1974 Times 15 Feb. 4/4 A bunch of local ‘baddies’ reinforced by ‘meanies’.

1991 Time 27 May 13/1 Films and books routinely ‘entertain’ us with portrayals of weirdos, sickos, and meanies.

2005 T. L. Rioux From Sawdust to Stardust vi. 100 A stiff-lipped gangster seemed to be the limit of his work as a heavy... ‘DeForest Kelley is okay in his brief appearance as the meanie’, Daily Variety commented.