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meanspirited::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ungenerous |
a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive.
Examples of meanspirited
meanspirited
He is supposed to be lovably gruff, but is, in fact, just plain meanspirited.
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The meanspirited rantings Gingrich's conservative audiences eagerly expect were gone.
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Meanspirited Novak, a shill for the political right, publicly outed Wilson's wife Plame.
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You comments were presumably removed because you're being meanspirited and pointlessly nasty.
From the guardian.co.uk
Do the old-fashioned Muppets still have a place in a computer-animated and meanspirited world?
From the freep.com
Lendl is a chilly, self centered, condescending, meanspirited, arrogant man with a nice forehand.
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Such arguments struck many Americans as meanspirited.
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But that's no real reason to be meanspirited about the result, a compelling advertisement for an honorable profession.
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My comment is not meanspirited in the slightest.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Ungenerous: 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"
- Base: 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"
- (meanspiritedly) in a meanspirited manner
