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meanspirited
adjective
Lacking in magnanimity
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adjective
Lacking in magnanimity
“{'source': 'Times Litt. Sup.', 'text': 'it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note'}”
adjective
Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
“{'source': 'Edmund Burke', 'text': 'that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble'}”
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{'source': 'Times Litt. Sup.', 'text': 'it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note'}
A meanspirited man unwilling to forgive
{'source': 'Edmund Burke', 'text': 'that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble'}
Taking a mean advantage
{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"}
Something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics
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