Definition of Mesquine

1. mean [adj] - See also: mean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesquine

mesoxalates
mesoxalic
mesoxalic acid
mesoxalylurea
mesoxerophyte
mesoxerophytes
mesozoa
mesozoan
mesozoans
mesozoic
mesprise
mesprises
mesprize
mesprizes
mesquin
mesquine (current term)
mesquit
mesquite
mesquite gum
mesquites
mesquits
mess-up
mess about
mess dress
mess hall
mess halls
mess jacket
mess jackets

Literary usage of Mesquine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Me- Her une vie mesquine, to lead a mean—shabby—lile, ... Cette architecture e*t bien mesquine, tliat architecture is poor. // n'a que da idees mesquine», ..."

2. Dictionary of English and French Idioms: Illustrating, by Phrases and by Jean Roemer (1853)
"These are basse, bien ignoble. A shabby coat, nn habit usé, râpé. She had a shabby dreft* on, elle portait une robe fort mesquine—elle était ..."

3. Dictionary of English and French Idioms: Illustrating, by Phrases and by Jean Roemer (1853)
"¡lit dress is shabby genteel, sa mise, quoique pauvre et mesquine, annonce des prétentions. To SHACKLE. Enchaîner; attacher avec dee cordes; ..."

4. Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: Being a Narrative of Travels in the by Henry Danby Seymour (1855)
"This mesquine policy of to-day, are we to consider it as one of the quiverings which announce the imminent dissolution of the Romano- German states, ..."

5. By Land and Sea (1894)
"... fingers over on the backs of their hands, and hold up these imitation deformities, as they cried out piteously : " mesquine ! mesquine ! " (Miserable. ..."

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