meanly4 definitions found meanly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : 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] 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] meanly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) : meanly adv 1: in a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily" [syn: nastily, meanly] 2: in a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society" [syn: meanly, scurvily, basely] 3: poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped" 4: in a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation" [syn: meanly, humbly] meanly - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : 51 Moby Thesaurus words for "meanly": abjectly, abominably, arrantly, atrociously, balefully, basely, closefistedly, commonly, contemptibly, despicably, execrably, flagrantly, foully, grossly, harmfully, hatefully, heinously, illiberally, in spite, inferiorly, iniquitously, invidiously, maleficently, malevolently, maliciously, malignantly, miserably, monstrously, nastily, nefariously, niggardly, noxiously, obnoxiously, odiously, ornerily, pettily, poorly, scurvily, shabbily, shoddily, sordidly, spitefully, stingily, tightfistedly, ungenerously, vilely, wickedly, with bad intent, with malice aforethought, with malice prepense, wretchedly |