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Synonyms for meanly
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : meen-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmin li |
Définition of meanly
Origin :- 1580s, "indifferently;" 1590s, "basely;" c.1600, "illiberally;" from mean (adj.1) + -ly (2).
- adv meagerly
- Most men, meanly envious, disliked him; all men held him in pardonable distrust.
- Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Indeed he said as much to me, and that it was not his fault that he thought so meanly of mankind.'
- Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
- And if you thought so meanly of the cause, why have you adopted it?
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- His fault was not thinking too well of others, but thinking too meanly of himself.
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- Of their names they made a secret & their garb was but meanly.
- Extract from : « The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) » by Snorri Sturluson
- We do not think so meanly of our country that we are willing to sell it for a mess of pottage.
- Extract from : « The Ontario High School Reader » by A.E. Marty
- Yet, being poor and meanly arrayed, he pushed not forward in the press.
- Extract from : « King Arthur's Knights » by Henry Gilbert
- "It seems to me that you fellows use me as meanly as you know how," flared Hen.
- Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys Snowbound » by H. Irving Hancock
- You have to-day again a dozen times the fortune I meanly squandered.
- Extract from : « Mr. Kris Kringle » by S. Weir Mitchell
- I was angry at the prince for involving my affairs so meanly.
- Extract from : « Princess Zara » by Ross Beeckman
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