meanly

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Meanly clad, bent, and leaning on a common oaken staff, the face and figure of this old peasant were such as once looked at could not be easily forgotten.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force that sun but on a part to shine, Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold northern climes.

From An Essay on Criticism by Pope, Alexander

Coldly: "Meanly as you may think of me, I have not fallen so low that I should seek to annoy you by my presence."

From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe

It would be— "Meanly poor in solitude to hide An honest zeal, unwarped by party rage."

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

Meanly clad and wayworn were the strangers who now sat endeavoring to dry their dripping clothes at the blaze, and conversing in a low tone together.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James