Sentence examples for meanly from inspiring English sources

The word "meanly" is correct and usable in written English
It is an adverb that usually means "in a mean or unkind way". For example, "He spoke meanly about her in front of others."

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meanly

adverb

Humbly, of or from low social status; basely.

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Sam, who wants to be an internet poker player, is torn between letting his younger sister win and risk me pointing out (meanly) that he can't be that good if he gets beaten by an eight year old.

Texas is simply taking the logical next step.Necessary safeguardsAll that said, the administration has one legitimate fear: that private companies, if given their heads, may run social services so leanly and meanly that deserving cases may be turned away.

Europol investigated match-fixing in 2012-13, for instance, and came up with suspected "manipulation" in more than 380 matches in Europe, including some unidentified ones from prestige leagues which it rather meanly refuses to make public.

The bones of the children are in a white marble sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey with the inscription: "These brothers being confined in the Tower of London, and there stifled with pillows, were privately and meanly buried, by the order of their perfidious uncle Richard the Usurper".

Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has called for Tesco to be stopped from opening a new store in her part of north London because the "meanly paid" staff would harm the local community spirit.

I have so much work at the restaurant that everyone I mention this to acts peculiar and quiet, so meanly worried for me.

Marshall took his oath of office in a "meanly furnished, very inconvenient" room in the Capitol Building, where the Justices, who did not have clerks, had no room to put on their robes (this they did in the courtroom, in front of gawking spectators), or to deliberate (this they did in the hall, as quietly as they could).

Krystal, an attractive blond poet, is the only one who really seems to know the magazine, at least as it was in the days when Annie Leibovitz spent weeks on the road photographing the Stones (and doing drugs with them, as Wenner rather meanly suggested in a recent "American Masters" about Leibovitz on PBS).

But Godard and Houellebecq, in their different ways, are rigorous, austere, and meanly funny, and Assayas is a fairly traditional movie sensationalist.

It is a kind of truth these answers give, the truth of sorrow and of celebration, the truth that we are stamped with immortality and the truth that we live meanly.

I knew that those dollars wouldn't allow him to travel or eat in America any way but meanly, cheaply.

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