• (British) IPA: /ˈmiːnli/

meanly (comparative meanlier, superlative meanliest)

1. Humbly, of or from low social status; basely. [from 16th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 3, member 2:

     Iphicrates and Marius were meanly born.

2. Poorly or inadequately. [from 16th c.]
3. In a mean manner; ill-willed, nastily. [from 17th c.]

   He meanly refused to ever make a charitable donation.