 meanspirited |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | |
| Synonyms: | mean base | |
| Examples: | "liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" |
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| Related terms: | ignoble | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] lacking in magnanimity | |
| Synonyms: | ungenerous | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | generous grudging uncharitable stingy | |
| Similar spelling: |
meanspiritedly |
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