Crossword clues for meanly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Meanly \Mean"ly\, adv. [ Mean middle.] Moderately. [Obs.]
A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly
affectioned to set forward learning in others.
--Ascham.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. 1 humbly, of or from low social status; basely. (from 16th c.) 2 poorly or inadequately. (from 16th c.) 3 In a mean manner; ill-willed, nastily. (from 17th c.)
WordNet
adv. in a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily" [syn: nastily]
in a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society" [syn: scurvily, basely]
poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped"
in a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation" [syn: humbly]
Usage examples of "meanly".
He would be the more truly his son henceforth, though, as Sheridan said, Bibbs had not come down-town with him meanly or half-heartedly.
The Celts have never had the art of building, and so far as I can see, such towns as Towy and Merthyr Tegveth and Meiros must have been always much as they are now, clusters of poorish, meanly built houses, ill kept and down at heel.
Barnacle had naturally tried to bite the hand that scrubbed him, he had meanly interposed the brush, so Barnacle had broken a tooth.
To him it was a signal that Brassey still distrusted Vartan and himself, and that he had, rather meanly, used Marjorie to spy on their loyalty.
One party maintained that the possession of Port Egmont was of the utmost importance to England, and that by the secret article, which it was said existed in the convention, implying that after all we were to give it up, the national honour had been meanly sacrificed.
He sees that the soldier is neglected, meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he safeguards.
Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.
IF a person could be persuaded of this principle as he ought, that we are all originally descended from God, and that he is the Father of gods and men, I conceive he never would think meanly or degenerately concerning himself.
The back of the hatchet head thwacked meanly against his head, dropping him to the ground with a shocked yell and a sudden spurt of bright blood.