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Adverb: meanly  meen-lee
  1. In a nasty ill-tempered manner
    "'Don't expect me to help you,' he added meanly";
    - nastily
     
  2. In a despicable, ignoble manner
    "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society";
    - scurvily, basely
     
  3. Poorly or in an inferior manner
    "troops meanly equipped"
     
  4. In a miserly manner
    "they lived meanly and without ostentation";
    - humbly

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