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[ adjective ] having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
Examples "liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking in magnanimity
Synonyms Examples "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" Related terms |
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