bemean
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Everything is so foul already that surely it is not worth while to bemean ourselves any further by attempting to gloss over the filth!”
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“When I’ve done my dooty by her, as other people, whom I won’t bemean myself to name, oughter have done, Mister Jarker, I shall go, and not before,” said Mrs Sims.
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn
Why," said she, "I would not bemean myself to open the door to such.
From The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney by Frederick Colin Tilney
"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 Charles Edward Pearce
You and me's in different walks of life, and it's my bounden duty to see as you don't bemean yourself.
From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
