Definition of "meanly"

meanly

/ˈmiːnli/

adverb
comparative meanlier or more meanly, superlative meanliest or most meanly
1. Humbly, of or from low social status; basely.
  Quotations
  Iphicrates and Marius were meanly born.
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition II, section 3, member 2
2. Poorly or inadequately.
3. In a mean manner; ill-willed, nastily.