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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Mean

Mean as a miser.
—Anonymous

Mean as an earth-worm.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Mean as falsehood.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Mean as dust, and dead as dreams.
—William Watson