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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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, meanspirited] [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, meanspirited]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meanspirited \mean"spir`it*ed\, mean-spirited
\mean"-spir`it*ed\, a.
   1. Of a mean spirit; petty; small-minded; base; groveling; --
      of people. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Done for malevolent reasons; -- of deeds and actions.

   Syn: base, contemptible, currish, mean, meanspirited, scurvy.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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