meanspirited

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective meanspirited has 2 senses

  • meanspirited(a = adj.all) ungenerous - 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"
  • meanspirited(s = adj.all) base, mean - having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

CIDE DICTIONARY

meanspiriteda. 
  •  Of a mean spirit; petty; small-minded; base; groveling; -- of people.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Done for malevolent reasons; -- of deeds and actions.  [WordNet 1.5]

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