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English Dictionary: meanspirited	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for meanspirited
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
meanspirited 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" Synonym(s): ungenerous, meanspirited Antonym(s): 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" Synonym(s): base, mean, meanspirited
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mean-spirited \Mean"-spir`ited\, a. Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- {Mean"-spir`ited*ness}, n.