meanspirited, adj.
lacking in magnanimity
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meanspirited ungenerous
sample sentences
"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"
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having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3
base mean meanspirited
sample sentences
"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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