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meanly |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Meanly \Mean"ly\, adv [{Mean} middle.] Moderately. [Obs.] A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others --Ascham. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Meanly \Mean"ly\, adv [From {Mean} low.] In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously. While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. --Milton. Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey ? --Prior. We can not bear to have others think meanly of them [our kindred]. --I. Watts. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: meanly adv 1: in a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily" [syn: {nastily}] 2: in a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society" [syn: {scurvily}, {basely}] 3: poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped" 4: in a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation" [syn: {humbly}]
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