Thesaurus / meanly
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Meanly concerned only with his own safety, and willing to resort to lying, in order to escape responsibility.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANIt outrages me that even a bourgeois should so meanly misjudge the aspirations of an active revolutionist.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANI used to think meanly of the plumber; but how he shines beside the politician!
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe knew by heart a meanly written Roman History, and no passage in Corneille could hold an invincible word.
SINISTER STREET, VOL. 1COMPTON MACKENZIEAnd with this he confessed to a distinct feeling of littleness, of having acted meanly or unworthily of himself or of her.
GALLEGHER AND OTHER STORIESRICHARD HARDING DAVISI was in Mr. Jones's power—and he meanly withheld from me the books necessary to my further advancement.
THE MONCTONS: A NOVEL, VOLUME ISUSANNA MOODIEYou who forget your friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob.
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SOURCESJAMES WOODJust as we were ready to re-embark I met on the seashore a lady, not at all bad looking, but very meanly dressed.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 99., DECEMBER 27, 1890VARIOUSHis translation seems to infer, that the gods were in danger of dying, had they not meanly complied with the conqueror.
DRYDEN'S WORKS (13 OF 18): TRANSLATIONS; PASTORALSJOHN DRYDENThe Margrave's Palace is a great old Pile, but not very commodious, and meanly furnish'd.
THE MEMOIRS OF CHARLES-LEWIS, BARON DE POLLNITZ, VOLUME IKARL LUDWIG VON PLLNITZWORDS RELATED TO MEANLY
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