bemean
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of bemean
Example Sentences
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“When I’ve done my dooty by her, as other people, whom I won’t bemean myself to name, oughter have done, Mister Jarker, I shall go, and not before,” said Mrs Sims.
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn
He was fighting for his life, and no eye could bemean that effort.
From The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall
"I wouldn't bemean myself," countered Horace loftily, and didn't.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
If I wanted to bemean myself, could n't I cast up somethin' you would n't like to be minded of?
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Faith, I wadna sae bemean mysel' to get the king oot o' Whitehall—wha they tell me is no that ill to get, gin yin had the chance—and in muckle the same way as Tam Lindsay.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"When missus bemeaned herself to shout out at me as if I'd been a sarpint," cried Clo, viciously.
From A Noble Woman by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
She bemeaned him until at last I asked her why she didn't leave him, and added that I would not stand such crankiness for one moment.
From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
M. le Comte de Cambray would think himself bemeaned were he to parley with a traitor.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
To Chagford’s amazement he so far bemeaned himself as to offer the sextoness his hand, and she accepted it.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
When you are reviled, bemeaned and slandered, and are tempted to retort, He says to you, “Put up thy sword into the sheath.”
From When the Holy Ghost is Come by Col. S. L. Brengle
We are daily trying to eliminate all that is animal, all that is gross and bemeaning in us, even to the extent of reducing the flavors of our foods to the lowest tolerable point.
From The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint
Bessie, and two trimly dressed maidens of riper years, waited upon the guests, nor thought the occupation bemeaning.
From The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
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