Dictionary entry

Meanly (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mean″ly, adv. [From Mean low.] In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.

While the heaven-born child

All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton.

Would you meanly thus rely

On power you know I must obey? Prior.

We can not bear to have others think meanly of them. I. Watts.