meanly
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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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mean2 (miːn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | chiefly (Brit) 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 chiefly (US), (Canadian) bad-tempered; vicious |
| 6. | informal ashamed: he felt mean about not letting the children go to the zoo |
| 7. | informal chiefly (US) unwell; in low spirits |
| 8. | slang excellent; skilful: he plays a mean trombone |
| 9. | no mean |
| a. of high quality: no mean performer | |
| b. difficult: no mean feat | |
| [C12: from Old English gemǣne common; related to Old High German gimeini, Latin communis common, at first with no pejorative sense] | |
| 'meanly2 | |
| —adv | |
| 'meanness2 | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
He has charged me with being connected with the rebels: the charge is utterly, totally, and meanly false.
Still they meanly fatten on the government they would destroy.
One cannot help being a little meanly and maliciously, though patriotically, glad that there are such gentlemen over the water.
The interior world that it meticulously uncovers is a meanly duplicitous one.
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