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

If I wanted to bemean myself, could n't I cast up somethin' you would n't like to be minded of?

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

“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

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 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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 Tilney, Frederick Colin