poor-spirited
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of poor-spirited
First recorded in 1655–65
Example Sentences
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I've knowed poor-spirited vessels, and vessels that was just ornery and mean; but 't is handsome is as handsome does with the Mary Sands.
From The Wooing of Calvin Parks by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
I have to confess that I was so poor-spirited as to have little or no animosity against him.
From The High Heart by Basil King
They were a bevy of poor-spirited, mean things.
From Wood Magic A Fable by Richard Jefferies
If a brother is attached to his brother and does not quarrel with him, is he therefore poor-spirited?
From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Furneaux Jordan
Why, what a poor-spirited fool I am to stay and whine!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
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