Meaning of MEANLY
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- [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"
- [adv] in a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily"
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| | Synonyms: | | basely, humbly, nastily, scurvily |
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\Mean"ly\, adv. [{Mean} middle.]
Moderately. [Obs.]
A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly
affectioned to set forward learning in others.
--Ascham.
\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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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