ADJECTIVE
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having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble
chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort
taking a mean advantage
something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics -
lacking in magnanimity
it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note
a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive
How To Use meanspirited In A Sentence
- Watch it gcs, you'll be accused of "meanspiritedness". Poll: Rudy Has Lost His National Lead
- We have ditched romanticism for the meanspirited pragmatism that is an essential part of the science of football management. Times, Sunday Times
- But its aim, despite what was recently claimed in one mirthless broadsheet, is not meanspirited mockery of struggling authors. Times, Sunday Times
- Certainly we can socialize with people without being in philosophical lockstep with them, as long as you both are open to developing either a mutally respectful or a hilariously meanspirited dialogue about your differences.
- The criticism is worse than meanspirited: it is wrong. Times, Sunday Times
- It's a song that has been labelled meanspirited, which it's not. The Sun
- It's a song that has been labelled meanspirited, which it's not. The Sun
- A life-long friend described Mitchell as "meanspirited, grotesque, and humorless. A Fiercely Gifted Artist
- But even as he fired Muhammad and called his words "meanspirited," there was Farrakhan on CNN last week saying that 75 percent of slaves in the American South were owned by Jews. On Hate: Censure, Not Censor
- It seems oddly coincidental, too, that in a movie teeming with churchly blondes, including Bethany's mother (Helen Hunt), the one meanspirited character in the movie—Bethany's rival Malina Birch (Sonya Balmores Chung)—is also the darkest of skin and blackest of hair. 'Arthur': He Drinks, Movie Falls Down