mean-spirited en · ADJ
Meanings
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Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition; tawdry.
My old acquaintances would sneer at me as a mean-spirited cur, whose best exploit was to get in jail.
1877, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 15, in A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mean spirited | alternative | lexicographic | |
| most mean-spirited | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| meanspirited | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more mean-spirited | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
meanspiritedness · meanspiritedly