meanspirited

[ meen-spir-i-tid ]

/ ˈminˈspɪr ɪ tɪd /

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adjective

petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.

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Origin of meanspirited

First recorded in 1685–95; mean² + spirited

mean·spir·it·ed·ly, adverbmean·spir·it·ed·ness, noun

I mean, physically, mentally, you know, in every way, shape, and form.
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What they actually mean by that is, you know, he actually knows some people that are poor.
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What does Bondi mean that clerks now should “determine how to proceed”?
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What is most troubling is our – and I do mean “our” and not “their” – never treating these situations as learning opportunities.
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They want Marvin to be as mean and as lonely and as trashy as the characters he portrays.
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Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
My husband detests them; on the contrary, I like those carriages, for they tell me of happy—I mean to say, of former times.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various