| a. | 1. | Of a mean spirit; petty; small-minded; base; groveling; - of people. |
| 2. | Done for malevolent reasons; - of deeds and actions. |
| Adj. | 1. | 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" Synonyms: ungenerous |
| 2. | 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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