bemean
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of bemean
Example Sentences
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To dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean yourself in a false way to your friends.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
They could scarcely believe that anyone so beautiful and dainty as Betsy Butterfly would bemean herself by robbing Farmer Green—or anybody else.
From The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales by Arthur Scott Bailey
“Which you’d best fetch this gentleman a light, Master Antony,” said cook; “for I ain’t going to bemean myself.”
From The Story of Antony Grace 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
She'll hab to walk and talk, and bofe bemean and brag!
From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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