Meanings of mean beside in inglés

Though what you mean beside is more than I can divine.

The other man looked pretty mean beside him; and yet he was not ill-looking.

But man's works show puny and mean beside nature, which seems spontaneous as a thought.

Even Ragnar looks mean beside him, and I hate Ragnar, so that I know well how goodly he is.

But when they're out, you know how the money goes if they don't want to look mean beside their companions.

His coarse buckskin coat looked mean beside the richer apparel of his brother, and his buskins were ill-tied and his kilt was dusty and tattered.

"You mean beside that plain girl wearing the jungle of rhododendrons?"

"You mean beside the fact that he was a top-notch prosecutor and good friend?"