The Collaborative International Dictionary
meanspirited \mean"spir`it*ed\, mean-spirited \mean"-spir`it*ed\, a.
Of a mean spirit; petty; small-minded; base; groveling; -- of people. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
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Done for malevolent reasons; -- of deeds and actions.
Syn: base, contemptible, currish, mean, meanspirited, scurvy.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of mean-spirited English)
WordNet
adj. 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]
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]
Usage examples of "meanspirited".
There was something meanspirited about its backside, and the entrance turned out to be worse.
The only thing that stopped him from taking her was knowing that if he went back on his word now, he would be no better than Jasper or Bart Fine or any of the other meanspirited sons-of-bitches who believed they could steal what they wanted without ever once having to pay a price.
Every selfish, meanspirited, stupid thing she had ever done or said came back to rattle through her mind like swords on a whirligig.
Within a couple years there start to be complaints about her--petty grievance fnaa, some of it, but then there are some of her fellow-scoilin accusing her of abusing her mindstrength--everything from meanspirited pranks to more serious violations of their psychic integrity.
Portolis was insistent, maintaining that any lesser action would leave him meanspirited in his own eyes.
I associate with forests too low and too dense to provide a view, tends to cramp the uplifting qualities of human nature and enhance those instincts which are meanspirited and small.
It was obvious that this was a treacherous and perhaps meanspirited machine.