Definition: meanspirited

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

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 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" [syn: base, mean]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Mean-spirited \Mean"-spir`it*ed\, a.
   Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. --
   Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.