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meanly

/meen-lee/US // ˈmin li //

卑鄙地,卑鄙地说,卑劣地,卑鄙

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a poor, lowly, or humble manner.
    • : in a base, contemptible, selfish, or shabby manner.
    • : in a stingy or miserly manner.

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Examples

  • 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.