Meanly
['minli]
Definition
(adv.) in a miserly manner; 'they lived meanly and without ostentation'.
(adv.) poorly or in an inferior manner; 'troops meanly equipped'.
(adv.) in a despicable, ignoble manner; 'this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society'.
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Definition
(adv.) Moderately.
(adv.) In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.
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Examples
- Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very meanly of me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Boy, boy, observed the old Demarch, laying his hand on the young man's shoulder, do you think so meanly of me as that? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I should call it the conduct of a meanly deceitful man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Think meanly of me, Lina, said he. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She thinks meanly, she feels contemptuously, doubtless? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Why, then, should you think so meanly of him? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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