bemean

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 Sarah Bell Hackley

He was fighting for his life, and no eye could bemean that effort.

From The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

We belittle ourselves in the sight of God and men, bemean ourselves in the presence of the moral law, and stay more or less our progress in the great educational work of life.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver

She'll hab to walk and talk, and bofe bemean and brag!

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley

“I shouldn’t bemean myself to speak to her, if I was you, Joseph,” said his wife.

From A Little World by George Manville Fenn

M. le Comte de Cambray would think himself bemeaned were he to parley with a traitor.

From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

She bemeaned him until at last I asked her why she didn't leave him, and added that I would not stand such crankiness for one moment.

From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

"When missus bemeaned herself to shout out at me as if I'd been a sarpint," cried Clo, viciously.

From A Noble Woman by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

When you are reviled, bemeaned and slandered, and are tempted to retort, He says to you, “Put up thy sword into the sheath.”

From When the Holy Ghost is Come by Col. S. L. Brengle

To Chagford’s amazement he so far bemeaned himself as to offer the sextoness his hand, and she accepted it.

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

We are daily trying to eliminate all that is animal, all that is gross and bemeaning in us, even to the extent of reducing the flavors of our foods to the lowest tolerable point.

From The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint

Bessie, and two trimly dressed maidens of riper years, waited upon the guests, nor thought the occupation bemeaning.

From The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams