1 in a way that shows that you are not willing to give or share things, especially money
We seem in this country to have an almost invariable habit of treating our ex-overseas civil servants about as meanly as possible.
The naval officer is certainly being very shabbily and meanly treated.
In most cases the district nurse is treated very meanly.
As a nation, we treat our artists and creative writers meanly and at times disgracefully.
I doubt if ever any party strutted more boastfully into the handling of a great problem or tried more meanly to sneak out of their responsibilities afterwards.
If those involved in industrial disputes are to be placed in a separate category from the unemployed, whom we have already treated meanly, that issue must arise.
I do not think so meanly of the workers that they will not work because they know part of their wages is going to be taken in taxation.
I really do not think so meanly of our people that employers will not do their best unless they have the incentive of some large added profits.
