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View definitions for mean spirited

mean spirited

adjective as in mean-spirited

adjective as in recreant

adjective as in base

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Example Sentences

Then Eminem decided he wanted in on some of the mean-spirited misogyny, actually rapping about raping Iggy.

This time she simply told her she was “vicious and mean-spirited.”

And then when you go there, you are cussed out, called arrogant, mean-spirited, and nasty.

He was an awkward, demanding, mean-spirited git from time to time, I assure you.

He said the account started off as a parody but “developed over time into a series of inappropriate and mean-spirited comments.”

After all, we are of the same stock, although your father always flouted me for a mean-spirited churl.

I'll leave the minute you're mean-spirited enough to let that child go and not afore.

Ulrich von Hutten is one of those men of genius at whom propriety is shocked, and whom the mean-spirited avoid.

Peleg was a terrible mean-spirited, deceiving sort of cretur.

The miserable things slink about so in such sick and mean spirited fashion.

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On this page you'll find 81 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mean spirited, such as: cowardly, mean, servile, timid, and weak.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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