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meanly

adverb as in meagerly

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Second, we have in Barack Obama a president who values Britain as meanly as he might Arizona.

Meanly concerned only with his own safety, and willing to resort to lying, in order to escape responsibility.

It outrages me that even a bourgeois should so meanly misjudge the aspirations of an active revolutionist.

I used to think meanly of the plumber; but how he shines beside the politician!

He knew by heart a meanly written Roman History, and no passage in Corneille could hold an invincible word.

And with this he confessed to a distinct feeling of littleness, of having acted meanly or unworthily of himself or of her.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to meanly, such as: miserly, poorly, and selfishly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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