Meanings of grow mean in English

Tyranny and wrong, invariably make the people, who submit to them, grow mean, treacherous, and false.

The names of Mariposa, San Buenaventura, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey can never grow mean or common.

This places you near the Divine Man, and all grow mean and plebeian to the degree that they recede from him.

As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us.

The High Street of the town had grown mean and sordid to the eye.

He grows mean and small and diseased with the diet.

Being grown means living among strangers.

Silence stretched until it grew mean.

"Why," said the bean, "don't you know what growing means?

Often hereafter when their hopes were overcast, or life grew mean with little cares, they would slip, singly, or together, into that gallery, and-

We save all our lives to invest in a South Sea Bubble; and in skimping and scheming, we have grown mean, and narrow, and hard.