meanspirited

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Definition of meanspirited in English English dictionary

{s} petty, not generous

having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

Of a mean spirit; base; groveling

lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt Sup ; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive"

alternative spelling of mean-spirited

Hyphenation

mean·spi·ri·ted