Possible Clues:

• How brutes behave
• Lean in my surroundings is so miserly
• In a despicable, ignoble manner
• With malice
• In an unkind way
• In a sordid way
• You can get lean in my stingy way
• It's masculine, but poor, around the East
• 'E is poorly in a masculine sort of way
• Butch embracing sweetheart closely