meanspirited English

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meanspirited

— adjective (= ungenerous) 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

— adjective (= base, mean) 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

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mean

base

ungenerous

wicked

vicious

bad

vile

unsympathetic

unkindly

unkind

shabby

petty

persnickety

pedantic

naughty

nasty

mean-minded

malign

low

immoral

hurtful

evilminded

evil-minded

evil

despiteful

catty

cattish

captious

cantankerous

beastly