meanspirited Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. adjective lacking in magnanimity
   ungenerous.
   
   • 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. adjective satellite having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
   base; mean.
   
   • 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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