What is the meaning of meanspirited?

adjective

  • 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"
  • 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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