Hypertext Webster Gateway: "meanspirited"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mean-spirited \Mean"-spir`it*ed\, a.
Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. --
{Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
meanspirited
adj 1: 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" [syn: {ungenerous}] [ant: {generous}]
2: 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" [syn: {base}, {mean}]
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