bemean
Example Sentences
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Surely we need no further bemean and befoul ourselves!
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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
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)
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
He was fighting for his life, and no eye could bemean that effort.
From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison
