bemean
Example Sentences
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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
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
To dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean yourself in a false way to your friends.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman
"I wouldn't bemean myself," countered Horace loftily, and didn't.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Wren, Percival Christopher
“I shouldn’t bemean myself to speak to her, if I was you, Joseph,” said his wife.
From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.