Meanly

Definition: Meanly

Meanly

Adverb

1. In a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily".

2. In a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society".

3. Poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped".

4. In a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "meanly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Meanly

Crosswords: Meanly

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I am robbed as if in a wood, but meanly robbed

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "meanly": think meanly of. Additional references.

Albanian

ndyrazi, ndyrësisht (filthily), në mënyrë të poshtër, dobësisht (slightly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بحقارة (basely, insignificantly, mean), ‏بدناء ة, ‏ببخل (sparingly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скромно (decently, frugally, humbly, quiet, quietly, simply), слабо (faintly, flabbily, low, remotely, slightly, weakly), оскъдно (low, scantily, sparingly), низко (low), бедно (baldly, humbly, poorly), подло (basely, dirtily, foully, low). (various references)

Chinese 

卑鄙地 (shamefully). (various references)

Czech

skoupì. (various references)

French

mesquinement (meaningly), méchamment, chichement, avaricieusement. (various references)

German

gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

μικροπρεπώσ (pettily), ευτελώσ (ignobly). (various references)

Hungarian

közepesen (middling, moderately, so so). (various references)

Italian

meschinamente (pettily), umilmente (lowly). (various references)

Korean 

비열하게 (Despicably). (various references)

Pig Latin

eanlymay.(various references)

Portuguese

miseravelmente (miserably), mesquinhamente (grudgingly), torpemente, pobremente (poorly). (various references)

Romanian

ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), sãrãcãcios (baldly, barely, barren, humble, mean, miserable, modest, penurious, poky, poor, poorly, poverty stricken, scant, shabby, slender, sorry, sparing), josnic (abject, base, base-minded, despicable, dirty, grovelling, grubby, infamous, little, low, low-minded, mean, nasty, paltry, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, slavish, sordid, sordidly, vile), infam (ignominious, infamous, low down, mean, nefarious, opprobrious, villainous). (various references)

Russian 

подло (despicably, scurvily). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podlo, škrto (grudgingly, scantily, tightly). (various references)

Spanish

de manera tacaña, con mezquindad. (various references)

Swedish

simpelt (low, simply). (various references)

Turkish

cimrice (mangily, miserly), alçakça (abjectly, cowardly, nefariously, rascally, sneakingly, unworthy). (various references)

Ukrainian

убого (baldly, scantily), скупо (grudgingly, near, scantily), нечесно (foul, rascally), підло (basely, dirtily, rascally, under board), посередньо (circumstantiality, indifferently, middling, moderately). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hèn hạ (abject, base, basely, blithering, despicable, dirtily, dirty, dishonourable, picayune, poor, scabbily, scurvy, shabby, vile), bần tiện (contemptible, illiberal, lousily, mean, meant, small, small-minded), bủn xỉn (close-fisted, hard-fisted, miserly, penurious, scrimpy, skimpingly, skimpy). (various references)

humiliter. (various references)

Misspellings

"Meanly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maendy, maenol, manely, meanys, mearly, Medaglie, meeney, meeny, menacy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laymen, namely.

-1 letter: leman, manly, mealy, meany, yamen.

-2 letters: alme, amen, amyl, elan, elmy, lame, lane, lean, male, mane, many, meal, mean, myna, name, nema, yean, ylem.

-3 letters: ale, ane, any, aye, elm, lam, lay, lea, ley, lye, mae, man, may, mel, men, nae, nam, nay, yam, yea, yen.

-4 letters: ae, al, am, an, ay, el, em.

+1 letter: amylene, hymenal.

+2 letters: amenably, amylenes, amylogen, cyclamen, humanely, hymeneal, hymenial, lambency, laywomen, maidenly, mannerly, medianly, menially, mentally, mesnalty, mycelian, seamanly, tallymen, yeomanly.

+3 letters: amplidyne, amylogens, animately, clergyman, cyclamens, embryonal, geminally, germanely, hymeneals, lambently, liveryman, manslayer, meaningly, mentality, millenary, minelayer, monolayer, mundanely, myoneural, numerally, polyamine, salarymen, seminally.

+4 letters: alimentary, amplidynes, anemically, aneurysmal, animatedly, cavalrymen, elementary, emblazonry, germinally, handsomely, hymeneally, immanently, inhumanely, intimately, lamentably, lamentedly, lampoonery, laundrymen, manageably, manifestly, manslayers, maternally, melancholy, melanocyte, menacingly, minelayers, mineralogy, miscellany, mistakenly, monetarily, monolayers, myelinated, namelessly, nematology, polyamines, terminably, terminally, unmannerly.