1 in a way that shows that you are not willing to give or share things, especially money --
Your talents would be miserably applied meanly rewarded.
He was often meanly suspicious, and life had encouraged him to be ever mindful of his welfare and that of the large family dependent on him.
The others scold him meanly for this, causing him to run away.
He appears to see them as closer friends than they see him but neither of them treat him meanly either.
His talents, were not meanly cultivated by letters; he could tell a good book from a bad one, which few modern librarians can do.
All serious speeches are treated rather meanly.
Above all, just because there is a bit of roughage in the rich diet our artists have given us in recent years, do not let us meanly cavil.
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.
