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meanly

[meen-lee] / ˈmin li /
ADVERB
meagerly
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“They are cowardly and meanly hiding his body, refusing to give it to his mother and lying miserably,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

I didn’t say it meanly, but it was like, I want to shake some hands and enjoy this moment.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022

Now there's an undertone of dread that we could "meanly lose, the last best hope of earth," as Abraham Lincoln warned.

From Salon • May 16, 2021

I replied, perhaps a little meanly, that this was a star of declining wattage.

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2018

He was smiling, exhilarated, liberated and meanly enjoying a weapon he did not know lay in his arsenal.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy