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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mean-spirited  \Mean"-spir`it*ed\,  a. 
  Of  a  mean  spirit;  base;  groveling.  -- 
  {Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  meanspirited 
  adj  1:  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"  [syn:  {ungenerous}]  [ant:  {generous}] 
  2:  having  or  showing  a  meanspirited  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"  [syn:  {base},  {mean}] 




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