Grieving and Mean

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Grieving adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.

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Mean and grieving are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Grieving".

Nearby Words: grievous, grievance, grieve, grief, grieved

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

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Grieving and mean are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grieving" instead an adjective "Mean".

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

One character that seems to be a Jerk Ass from the offset, the "mean old lady," turns out to be just grieving for her dead son.

Source: Asshole Victim / Literature
It ended up a little more complicated than that and House said some very mean and cruel things to the grieving husband ("We're talking about meat") but his goals were to save someone who could be saved because of her.

Source: Series / House

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