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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
meanspirited
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 (for: ungenerous)
• See Also:
stingy, ungenerous
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
• Similar to:
ignoble
• Derivationally related forms:
meanness (for: mean), baseness (for: base)
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