meechingly
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]meechingly (comparative more meechingly, superlative most meechingly)
- In a meeching manner.
- 2010, Barry Werth, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal[1], page 40:
- Their “diplomatic little resolution—so tactfully, so politely, so meechingly worded,” as Hicks wrote, provoked a near riot when it was presented […]
- 1922 February 23, Celina H. Lewis, “Hunting a Degree”, in A.E. Winship, editor, Journal of Education, volume 95, number 8, Boston University, School of Education, page 210:
- At the opening of the session I meechingly advance to the bulletin where the lists of pedagogic authorities are posted, and read with watering eyes the names glittering with D.D.'s, LL.D.'s, X.Y.Z.'s, E.T.C.'s.
- 1921, Dane Coolidge, chapter XI, in The Man-killers[2], page 95:
- […] he carried her into the house while the hounds followed meechingly behind.