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# meanly

«meanly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in an unkind or nasty way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (meanly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Meanly means in an unkind or nasty way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/#m1)

2) Meanly can mean in a stingy way, not willing to share or spend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/#m2)

3) Meanly can mean poorly or shabbily, as in "meanly dressed". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, meanly tells the reader that a character is being unkind: "she laughed meanly". In lessons about kindness, pupils talk about acting meanly and how it makes others feel.

### examples

- He laughed meanly when I fell over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/#x1)
- She meanly took the last biscuit without asking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/#x2)
- The giant meanly kept all the gold for himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/#x3)
- Don't speak meanly to your little sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/#x4)
- The beggar was meanly dressed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/#x5)
- The bully smiled meanly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/#x6)

### note

Adverb of "mean" (unkind). Not linked to "mean" in maths (the average) or to "meaning". It is a fairly rare word; "unkindly" or "nastily" are more common.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «meanly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meanly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.