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Poor-spirited

Poor-spirited \Poor"-spir`it*ed\, a. Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base. -- Poor"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.

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poor-spirited

adj. lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful [syn: pusillanimous, unmanly]

Usage examples of "poor-spirited".

He larked with the midshipmen, played single-stick with the mates, ran up the shrouds like a boy, sang a comic song one night to the amusement of the whole party assembled over their grog after supper, and rendered himself so gay, lively, and amiable, that even Captain Bragg, who thought there was nothing in his passenger, and considered he was a poor-spirited feller at first, was constrained to own that the Major was a reserved but well-informed and meritorious officer.