They lived meanly and without ostentation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Troops meanly equipped. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Here and now was his vindication, here at last the proof that he had not chosen his calling meanly, nor in all selfishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Brentons] Reference
First of all people wouldn't have to speak "meanly" about people if they had COMMON SENSE. From Wordnik.com. [WCAV - HomePage - Headlines] Reference
I was angry at the prince for involving my affairs so meanly. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
"Why! how meanly you talk," said Nancy, fairly white now with anger. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
"Still, I cannot think so meanly of Madame di Negra," persisted Frank. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
Government to endeavour meanly to make Captain Elliot their scapegoat. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
You had not to pit yourself against a mean mind, and act meanly by it. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Yet, being poor and meanly arrayed, he pushed not forward in the press. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
The third, a poniard, very meanly adorned, which she begged him to accept. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The finder apparently did not much fancy having his prize counted so meanly. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge] Reference
How meanly everything bad in his life was emphasized, everything good forgotten!. From Wordnik.com. [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference
Perhaps more comfortably, less dangerously, but also in humbler style - more meanly?. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
It is certain that he had reason to hate me and that he treated me as meanly as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The streets are narrow and irregular, and the houses, with a few exceptions, meanly built. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
Vincennes, an ancient town, is small, ugly and meanly built, although beautifully situated. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
That's why he didn't want to come to Three Star Ranch -- because he had treated us so meanly. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's] Reference
"I don't like concealments," urged Agnes; "I felt meanly in acting so about your dress, Ruth.". From Wordnik.com. ['Our Guy' or, The elder brother] Reference
We do not think so meanly of our country that we are willing to sell it for a mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
After the visit to Jimmy, which made Trampy so meanly jealous, she lost no opportunity of inquiring. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
He has advanced a little, while Joyce, on the contrary, has meanly receded farther into the background. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
To think meanly of one's self, is to sink in one's own estimation as well as in the estimation of others. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Think not so meanly of me, Chamisso, as to imagine that I would have shrunk from any sacrifice on my part. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
If he had aspirations they were high, honorable and noble; nothing low or meanly come near his head or heart. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
British Army what it is to-day, and a class meanly paid and shockingly neglected by the Governments of the past. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
It is in the Harleian Miscellany, v. 298, and a copy of the meanly printed original is in the Ticknor Collection. From Wordnik.com. [The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford] Reference
Unfortunately the soldiers he employed had meanly deserted him, on hearing which de Grieux violently upbraids him. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
"Is that what your mother does, too?" asks Mr. Dysart, meanly it must be confessed, but his toe is very bad still. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Being meanly clad, and very humble to him, he thought she asked alms, upon which he offered her two pieces of gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
One day, while riding through Messina, he saw his father and mother, meanly dressed, sitting at the door of an inn. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Feeling herself in the wrong, she seeks meanly to free herself from the false position by placing him there in her stead. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
He felt that he was acting meanly even while he kissed little Lucy by the red wall where the apricots were ripening in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
IV., a small man, meanly dressed, glided out of the shadow of a vehicle, and moved stealthily after him, his motions wary as a cat's. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Hayden tried pointing out that Boobiac had celebrated her wins, and had meanly and loudly rubbed everyone's noses in it the week before. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Sorrows of Boobiac.] Reference
Among the lukewarm, the cowardly, the meanly selfish and avaricious, and the habitual grumblers, such doctrines are readily made plausible. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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