meanly

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Meanly elliptical, ludicrously precise, saving half-pence at the expense of sense, yet paying like a man for "Mr."

From Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Meanly indeed he valued you, to try By such coarse artifice to win his ends.

From Don Carlos by Schiller, Friedrich

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

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

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