meanspirited

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meanspirited

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    adj.

  • lacking in magnanimity; ungenerous

    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

  • having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; base, mean

    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