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Meanly

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Adverb

1. meanly, nastily

in a nasty ill-tempered manner

Example Sentences:
'Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily'

2. basely, meanly, scurvily

in a despicable, ignoble manner

Example Sentences:
'this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society'

3. meanly

poorly or in an inferior manner

Example Sentences:
'troops meanly equipped'

4. humbly, meanly

in a miserly manner

Example Sentences:
'they lived meanly and without ostentation'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Meanly

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verbWord forms: means, meaning or meant (mainly tr)
1. (may take a clause as object or an infinitive)
to intend to convey or express
2. (may take a clause as object or an infinitive)
intend
she didn't mean to hurt it
3. (may take a clause as object)
to say or do in all seriousness
the boss means what he says about strikes
4. (often passive; often foll by for)
to destine or design (for a certain person or purpose)
she was meant for greater things
5. (may take a clause as object)
to denote or connote; signify; represent
examples help show exactly what a word means
6. (may take a clause as object)
to produce; cause
the weather will mean long traffic delays
7. (may take a clause as object)
to foretell; portend
those dark clouds mean rain
8. 
to have the importance of
money means nothing to him
9. (intransitive)
to have the intention of behaving or acting (esp in the phrases mean well or mean ill)
10.  mean business
adjective
1. mainly British
miserly, ungenerous, or petty
2. 
humble, obscure, or lowly
he rose from mean origins to high office
3. 
despicable, ignoble, or callous
a mean action
4. 
poor or shabby
mean clothing
a mean abode
5. informal, mainly US and Canadian
bad-tempered; vicious
6. informal
ashamed
he felt mean about not letting the children go to the zoo
7. informal, mainly US
unwell; in low spirits
8. slang
excellent; skilful
he plays a mean trombone
9.  no mean
noun
1. 
the middle point, state, or course between limits or extremes
2. 
moderation
3. mathematics
a. 
the second and third terms of a proportion, as b and c in a/b = c/d
b.  another name for average (sense 2), See also geometric mean
4. statistics
a statistic obtained by multiplying each possible value of a variable by its probability and then taking the sum or integral over the range of the variable
adjective
5. 
intermediate or medium in size, quantity, etc
6. 
occurring halfway between extremes or limits; average

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Meanly

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verb transitiveWord forms: meant (mɛnt ; ment) or ˈmeaning
1. 
to have in mind; intend; purpose
he means to go
2. 
a. 
to intend or design for a certain person or purpose
a gift meant for you
b. 
to destine or seem to destine
he was meant to be a doctor
3. 
to intend to express, signify, or indicate
to say what one means
4. 
a. 
to be used to convey; denote
the German word “ja” means “yes”
b. 
to be a sign, indication, or herald of; signify
this means war!
verb intransitive
5. 
to have a purpose or intention in mind
chiefly in mean well, to have good intentions
6. 
to have a (specified) degree of importance, effect, or influence
honors mean little to him
adjective
1. 
low in quality, value, or importance; paltry; poor; inferior
now usually in negative constructions
paid no mean sum
2.  Rare
low in social status or rank; of humble origin
3. 
poor in appearance; shabby
a mean dwelling
4. 
ignoble; base; small-minded; petty
5. 
stingy; miserly; penurious
6.  US
bad-tempered; vicious; unmanageable
said of a horse, etc.
7.  US
pettily or contemptibly selfish, bad-tempered, disagreeable, malicious, etc.
8.  US
humiliated or ashamed
9.  US, Informal
in poor health; not well; ill; indisposed
10.  US, Slang
a. 
hard to cope with; difficult
to throw a mean curve in baseball
b. 
skillful; expert
to play a mean game of chess
adjective
1. 
halfway between extremes; in a middle or intermediate position as to place, time, quantity, quality, kind, value, degree, etc.
2. 
medium; average; middling
noun
3. 
what is between extremes; intermediate state, quality, course, or procedure
4. 
avoidance of extremes or excess; moderation
5.  Ancient Mathematics
a. 
a number between the smallest and largest values of a set of quantities, obtained by some prescribed method: unless otherwise qualified, the arithmetic mean
b. 
the number obtained by multiplying each value of x by the probability (or probability density) of x and then summing (or integrating) over the range of x
c. 
the second or third term of a four-term proportion
see also geometric mean, means

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Meanly

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adv.
In a poor, lowly, or base manner.

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