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Example sentences for "meanly"

Lexicographically close words:
meaningful; meaningless; meaninglessness; meaningly; meanings; meanness; meannesses; means; meant; meantime
  1. See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.

  2. So, you see, I went on meanly conversing with him, and affecting a simpering confidence.

  3. Some attendants of a mean appearance, and with most suspicious visages, awaited them on their entrance, and they ascended a narrow staircase, which led to a room meanly furnished.

  4. If he had had the courage to confess everything, and even to boast of it, I should not have thought so meanly of him.

  5. What then did it matter how meanly she dressed?

  6. This will be a lesson to me: I had not thought so meanly of the suffering poor as you make me think.

  7. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of Earth.

  8. Do not think so meanly of her as to suppose that she could be caught by a fair face, a graceful manner.

  9. She was growing very hard and wicked; and no wonder that he had come to think so meanly of her.

  10. You surely cannot think so meanly of me, Hamish?

  11. I think there may be a little truth in what Dan says, but I cannot think meanly of you because of that," said Hamish.

  12. Oh, how meanly you think of that noble soul!

  13. No, your Highness, you cannot think so meanly of one to whom, a few moments ago, you condescended to show the greatest favor.

  14. The disdain I may meet with I pretend not to retort, but wilfully to encounter, were meanly to deserve it.

  15. But shall I meanly error's path pursue, When heavenly truth presents her friendly clue?

  16. No more that abject wretch[93] disturbs my rest, Who meanly overlooks a friend distress'd.

  17. To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right, is an expression I once used on a former occasion, and it is equally applicable now.

  18. He has advanced a little, while Joyce, on the contrary, has meanly receded farther into the background.

  19. Where" (here she meanly tries to get behind Mr. Browne) "shall we go.

  20. Mr. Dysart, meanly it must be confessed, but his toe is very bad still.

  21. Can you think so meanly of a kingdom as not to be pleased that every creature in it, who hath one grain of worth, has a veneration for you?

  22. Of this play Steele afterwards declared with characteristic impulse that many of the most admired passages were the work of his friend, and that he "thought very meanly of himself that he had never publicly avowed it.

  23. He seemed just the sort of rogue meanly to join in an underhand conspiracy, and then meanly to back out of it.

  24. So, meanly clad, the Count and his two children arrived at London, and there made shift to get a living by going about soliciting alms in the guise of French mendicants.

  25. You threatened me with force, and you have meanly carried that threat into execution!

  26. Again the Great Candle was lit; again the meanly apparelled ones tapped on our door after dusk; and again I heard them weigh out peace and war, as they weighed out the gold on the table.

  27. For well the learned and the judicious know, That satire scorns to stoop so meanly low, As any one abstracted fop to show.

  28. One who has at any time had the honour of your lordship's conversation, cannot be supposed to think very meanly of that which he would prefer to your perusal.

  29. Those, who hinted their inability to see how a bullet issuing from a pistol pointed due south could take a course due north, were meanly suspicious.

  30. That prosecution was begun audaciously, was carried on meanly and with virulence, and ended with a charge and a verdict which disgraced the law.

  31. I fancy she was always fearful lest my brother should like Fanny the best; and she probably took this method to make you both think meanly of Fanny.

  32. Julia knew that she had made a favorable impression on Mr. Wilmot by making him think meanly of Fanny.

  33. They are meanly hot and dry, provoke urine, break the stone, and help such as cannot evacuate urine freely.

  34. Of bearsbreech, or brankursine, it is meanly hot and dry, helps aches and numness of the joints, and is of a binding quality, good for wounds and broken bones.

  35. In his clumsy old mahogany writing-desk were the few letters, brief and peremptory, which she had written to him at the time when he was watching and listening meanly at Thorpe Ambrose to please her.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meanly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrociously; commonly; flagrantly; grossly; harmfully; malevolently; maliciously; malignantly; meanly; miserably; monstrously; niggardly; poorly