mean-spirited

adj

mean-spirited

adj

1

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:

Synonyms: tawdry
Derived terms: meanspiritedly, meanspiritedness

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