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English Dictionary: meanly	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for meanly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
meanly adv in a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily" Synonym(s): nastily, meanly in a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society" Synonym(s): meanly, scurvily, basely poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped" in a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation" Synonym(s): meanly, humbly
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.