adj.
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
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