Word Study
meanly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial meanly has 4 senses
- meanly(r = adv.all) nastily - in a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily"
- meanly(r = adv.all) basely, scurvily - in a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society"
- meanly(r = adv.all) Array - poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped"
- meanly(r = adv.all) humbly - in a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation"
CIDE DICTIONARY
meanly, adv. [Mean middle.].
Moderately. [1913 Webster]
"A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others."
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meanly, adv. [From Mean low.].
In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously. [1913 Webster]
"While the heaven-born child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies." [1913 Webster]
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies." [1913 Webster]
"Would you meanly thus rely
On power you know I must obey ?" [1913 Webster]
On power you know I must obey ?" [1913 Webster]
"We can not bear to have others think meanly of them [our kindred]."
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THESAURUS
meanly
abjectly, abominably, arrantly, atrociously, balefully, basely, closefistedly, commonly, contemptibly, despicably, execrably, flagrantly, foully, grossly, harmfully, hatefully, heinously, illiberally, in spite, inferiorly, iniquitously, invidiously, maleficently, malevolently, maliciously, malignantly, miserably, monstrously, nastily, nefariously, niggardly, noxiously, obnoxiously, odiously, ornerily, pettily, poorly, scurvily, shabbily, shoddily, sordidly, spitefully, stingily, tightfistedly, ungenerously, vilely, wickedly, with bad intent, with malice aforethought, with malice prepense, wretchedly
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