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meanspirited   (TTS Sound)

KK Pronunciation

〔 `min`spIrәtId 〕

Pronunciation

〔 ˋmi:nˋspiritid 〕


Overview of adj meanspirited

The adj meanspirited has 2 senses


  • ungenerous, meanspirited -- (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")

  • base, mean, meanspirited -- (having or showing an ignoble 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")