From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Meanly \Mean"ly\, adverb [{Mean} middle.] Moderately. [Obs.]
A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. --Ascham.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Meanly \Mean"ly\, adverb [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adverb
1: in a nasty ill-tempered manner; "'Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily" [syn: {nastily}]
2: in a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society" [syn: {scurvily}, {basely}]
3: poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped"
4: in a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation" [syn: {humbly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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