bemean
Example Sentences
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“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
Surely we need no further bemean and befoul ourselves!
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
“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 Fenn, George Manville
Faith, I wadna sae bemean mysel' to get the king oot o' Whitehall—wha they tell me is no that ill to get, gin yin had the chance—and in muckle the same way as Tam Lindsay.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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
