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1. (adj.) meanspirited
petty; small-minded; ungenerous.
Etymology: (1685–95)
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1. (adj) ungenerous, meanspirited
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"
2. (adj) base, mean, meanspirited
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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