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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: meanspirited (0.01058 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to meanspirited.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: meanspirited
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] [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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: meanspirited
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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