meanly

Adverb

• in a miserly manner
  • they lived meanly and without ostentation
    

• poorly or in an inferior manner
  • troops meanly equipped
    

• in a despicable, ignoble manner
  • this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society
    

• in a nasty ill-tempered manner
  • `Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  humbly , scurvily , basely , nastily