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meanspirited

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meanspirited in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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"
    base  mean  meanspirited 
  2. 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"
    ungenerous  meanspirited 
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meanspirited in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (adjective) (alternative spelling of/mean-spirited)
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