'Meanly' definitions:
Definition of 'meanly'
From: WordNet
adverb
In a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily" [syn: nastily, meanly]
adverb
In a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society" [syn: meanly, scurvily, basely]
adverb
Poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped"
adverb
In a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation" [syn: meanly, humbly]
Definition of 'Meanly'
From: GCIDE
- Meanly \Mean"ly\, adv. [Mean middle.] Moderately. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. --Ascham. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Meanly'
From: GCIDE
- Meanly \Mean"ly\, adv. [From Mean low.] In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously. [1913 Webster]
- While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey ? --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- We can not bear to have others think meanly of them [our kindred]. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Meanly'
- By all means,
- By any means,
- By no means,
- Mean,
- Meaning,
- Meaningly,
- Meanness,
- by means of,
- means,
- mean deviation from the mean,
- Amphiuma means,
- By any manner of means,
- By no manner of means,
- Golden mean,
- Harmonical mean,
- Mean distance,
- Mean error,
- Mean line,
- Mean noon,
- Mean proportional,
- Mean sun,
- Mean time,
- Means grass,
- Means of grace,
- To mean business,
- Ways and means,
- arithmetic mean,
- arithmetical mean,
- by artificial means,
- double meaning,
- geometric mean,
- geometrical mean,
- grace means of,
- grammatical meaning,
- harmonic mean,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- man of means,
- mean deviation,
- mean value,
- means test,
- means to an end,
- word meaning,
- Error of the mean square,
- Extreme and mean ratio,
- Mean solar day,
- Mean-spiritedness,
- Well-meaning,
- greenwich mean time,
- mean solar time,
- mean square deviation,
- mean-spirited,
- regression toward the mean,
- ways and means committee,
- Mean-square error