meanspirited meaning and definition

MEANSPIRITED adjective

Definition of meanspirited (adjective)

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"
   • synonyms: ungenerous
   • antonym: 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"
   • synonyms: base, mean