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meanspirited |
2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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 a meanspirited 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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