Definitions for meanspirited

Definitions for (adj) meanspirited

Main entry: ungenerous, meanspirited

Definition: lacking in magnanimity

Usage: 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


Main entry: base, mean, meanspirited

Definition: having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality

Usage: 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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