mean-spirited

See also: meanspirited and mean spirited

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

mean-spirited (comparative more mean-spirited, superlative most mean-spirited)

Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition.
- 1877, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 15, in A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century:
  My old acquaintances would sneer at me as a mean-spirited cur, whose best exploit was to get in jail.

References

“mean-spirited”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“mean-spirited”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

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