| 单词 | to play mean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play (also act) mean = meanly adv.2 In modern use usually in to play (also act) mean (in which mean could be interpreted as the adjective). Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > ignobleness or baseness > [adverb] undignelyc1315 poorlyc1390 vilea1400 ignobly1594 unnobly1595 meanly1602 meana1626 unhandsomely1650 projectedly1660 unheroically1783 undignifiedly1856 raffishly1897 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adverb] uncharitablyc1386 meanly1602 scurvily1616 meana1626 ungenerously1722 unsportinglya1974 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > in a paltry, mean, or contemptible manner lowly1440 peltingly1555 meanlyc1561 miserablya1586 scurvily1616 mean1719 pettily1791 peddlingly1892 a1626 F. Bacon Christian Paradoxes in Wks. (1879) I. 341 When he is ablest, he thinks meanest of himself. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 304 If he fed them meaner than he was fed himself..they must fare very coursly indeed. 1861 O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 26 Virginia has acted meaner than South Carolina. 1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. i. 6 You see, Travers played mean at the last election, and that will be against him. 1918 M. E. Freeman Edgewater People 314 What in Sam Hill made you treat him so durned mean fur? 1983 J. Autry Nights under Tin Roof i. 10 There were spreading adders that puffed and hissed and acted mean. 1992 Lakota Times 3 June a4/5 When they had her in Hot Springs, she was the only Lakota there. They denied her cigarettes and treated her mean she told me. < as lemmas |
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