Definitions for meanly

meanly mean·ly

Spelling: [meen-lee]
IPA: /ˈmin li/

Meanly is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in meanly (aelmny).

Definitions for meanly

adverb

  1. in a poor, lowly, or humble manner.
  2. in a base, contemptible, selfish, or shabby manner.
  3. in a stingy or miserly manner.
  4. moderately.

Origin of meanly

First recorded in 1350-1400, meanly is from the Middle English word meneli. See mean2, -ly

Examples for meanly

Second, we have in Barack Obama a president who values Britain as meanly as he might Arizona.

"It seems to me that you fellows use me as meanly as you know how," flared Hen.

Yet, being poor and meanly arrayed, he pushed not forward in the press.

Of their names they made a secret & their garb was but meanly.

We do not think so meanly of our country that we are willing to sell it for a mess of pottage.

His fault was not thinking too well of others, but thinking too meanly of himself.

You have to-day again a dozen times the fortune I meanly squandered.

Indeed he said as much to me, and that it was not his fault that he thought so meanly of mankind.'

And if you thought so meanly of the cause, why have you adopted it?

Most men, meanly envious, disliked him; all men held him in pardonable distrust.

Word Value for meanly
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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