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meany

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1. meany - Noun

2. Meany - Proper noun

Meaning

a person of mean disposition

United States labor leader who was the first president of the AFL-CIO (1894-1980)

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This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on. John Irving

Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable. John Irving

After Muir's death in 1914, Edmond Meany gave a lecture on Muir “in memory of one of the great naturalists, poets, and philosophers of the Coast,” wrote The Seattle Times at the time. Source: Internet

Jim Carrey narrates this adaptation of John Irving's "A Prayer For Owen Meany," and bookends the movie as the titular character's grown-up best friend, played in flashbacks by Joseph Mazzello. Source: Internet

In One Person has a first-person viewpoint, Irving's first such narrative since A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving decided to change the first-person narrative of Until I Find You to third person less than a year before publication). Source: Internet

In October 1962, Mets official Tom Meany said, "Only a series of blizzards or some other unforeseen trouble might hamper construction." Source: Internet

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