bemean
Example Sentences
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She'll hab to walk and talk, and bofe bemean and brag!
From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell
"Nothing of the kind," cried Lavinia, furious that her mother should think she would so bemean herself.
From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward
I hain't blind and I hain't deef, and I can't holp seein' the way she does, and a hearin' her bemean you about me all the time nearly.
From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell
Faith, I wadna sae bemean mysel' to get the king oot o' Whitehall—wha they tell me is no that ill to get, gin yin had the chance—and in muckle the same way as Tam Lindsay.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
He would bemean himself sufficiently to overlook Frau's caddishness.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
