1 I mean everything that I have said.
2 It sounds vain, but you understand what I mean.
3 Her grandfather hated Kelso, thought him a mean dog.
4 I understand what you mean, and I believe in this girl.
5 she spoke the words as though they conveyed no meaning to her.
6 "I don't know what you mean, Basil," he exclaimed, turning round.
7 This young dandy who was making love to her could mean her no good.
8 You don't mean a single word of all that, Harry; you know you don't.
9 He stood there motionless and in wonder, dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him, but not catching the meaning of his words.
10 When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.
11 I fancy that the true explanation is this: It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.