A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. --Ascham.
Meanly \Mean"ly\, adv. [From {Mean} low.] In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.
While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. --Milton.
Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey ? --Prior.
We can not bear to have others think meanly of them [our kindred]. --I. Watts.
It is, by any measure, extraordinary and wonderful. Even as the flames swept through the great hall on Friday night, television announcers were meanly asking how much it would all cost; and the row about who will pay continues in Parliament and elsewhere.