mesquinement
French, adverb/mɛs.kin.mɑ̃/
mesquinement is spelled M-E-S-Q-U-I-N-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mesquinement is a French adverb meaning “meanly, narrow-mindedly, niggardly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “D’une façon mesquine”.
What does mesquinement mean in English?
adverb
- 1
meanly, narrow-mindedly, niggardly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. D’une façon mesquine.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce mesquinement?
- /mɛs.kin.mɑ̃/
- \mɛs.kin.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mesquinement in French?
mesquinement appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).