meechingly

comparative more meechingly · superlative most meechingly

1. In a meeching manner.

   […] he carried her into the house while the hounds followed meechingly behind.

   1921, Dane Coolidge, chapter XI, in The Man-killers, page 95

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   Their “diplomatic little resolution—so tactfully, so politely, so meechingly worded,” as Hicks wrote, provoked a near riot when it was presented […]

   2010, Barry Werth, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal, page 40

   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.

   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