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Definition of Meanly

1. Adverb. In a nasty ill-tempered manner. "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily"

2. Adverb. In a despicable, ignoble manner. "This new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society"

3. Adverb. Poorly or in an inferior manner. "Troops meanly equipped"

4. Adverb. In a miserly manner. "They lived meanly and without ostentation"

Definition of Meanly

1. adv. Moderately.

2. adv. In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.

Definition of Meanly

1. Adverb. Humbly, of or from low social status; basely. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

2. Adverb. Poorly or inadequately. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

3. Adverb. In a mean manner; ill-willed, nastily. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Meanly

1. in a mean manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meanly

meanies meanin' meaning meaning(a) meaning of life meaningful meaningfully meaningfulness meaningless meaninglessly

meaninglessness meaningly meanings meanish meanless meanly (current term) meanness meannesses means means-test

means-tested means of exchange means of production means of transport means of transportation means proportional means test meanspirited meanspiritedly

Literary usage of Meanly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... that is, as some think, he made men of the inhabitants who lived meanly like ants. This is perhaps the fullest history of those early days extant. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... the needy, the spendthrift, the meanly ambitious, operated upon by Castlereagh, with the whole resources of the ..."

3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"The troops, meanly surprised and betrayed in Texas, were sent there to protect her defenceless border settlements from the tomahawk and scalping-knife. ..."

4. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"... and Presbyterian Model—The Clergy are meanly provided for, the Nobles retaining the greater Part of the Spoils of the Catholic Church—Debates on this ..."

5. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"Nor should you think too meanly of yourselves, or yii-M to» much to your misfortunes nnd present sufferings, ..."

6. The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1837)
"Ethelred, instead of rousing AD his people to defend with courage their prince and their 991. property, meanly compounded with the enemy for his safety, ..."

7. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"Ethelred, instead of rousing his people to defend with courage their A' D> prince and their property, meanly compounded with the enemy for his safety, ..."

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