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/mˈiːnli/
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ADVERB
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in a nasty ill-tempered manner
`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily -
poorly or in an inferior manner
troops meanly equipped -
in a despicable, ignoble manner
this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society -
in a miserly manner
they lived meanly and without ostentation
How To Use meanly In A Sentence
- She scowled meanly, then her face became more serious and thoughtful.
- When she rejected his approaches, he began to treat her meanly and find fault with her.
- On his wrist a heavy gold ( goldish, Liz persuaded herself meanly) bracelet. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
- He had been behaving very meanly to his girlfriend.
- this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society
- Seldom will so much hot air have been expended by so many for such a meanly self-serving and self-defeating result.
- And how meanly soever we account of their Mill-stones; yet there they drill them, and enchase them in Rings, which afterward they send to the great Soldane, and have whatsoever they will demaund for them. The Decameron
- I was sick for a couple of days, meanly sick, and my arms were painfully poisoned from the barnacle scratches. Chapter 6
- The columns were of different substances; some of handsome marble, others of rough stone meanly plastered over, with dissimilar capitals, vulgarly cut shafts of various sizes; here with a pediment, there without, now turned upside down, then joined together by halves in the centre, and almost invariably nescient of intercolumnar rule. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- There it was all spiritual. Here it was all material , and meanly material.