Usually means: Hostile or cruel in intention.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word mean-spirited:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. mean-spirited: Merriam-Webster
  2. mean-spirited: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mean-spirited: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mean-spirited, mean-spirited: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Mean-Spirited, Mean-spirited, mean-spirited: Wordnik
  6. mean-spirited: Wiktionary
  7. mean-spirited: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Mean-spirited, mean-spirited: Dictionary.com
  9. Mean-spirited: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. mean-spirited: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Mean-spirited: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. mean-spirited: FreeDictionary.org
  13. mean-spirited: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mean-spirited: Legal dictionary

(Note: See mean-spiritedness as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition; tawdry.

Similar:
mean spirited, meanspirited, poor-spirited, bitchy, nasty, bitter, atrabilious, spiteful, cattish, black-hearted, more...

Opposite:
kind, generous, magnanimous, caring, thoughtful, selfless

Types:
cruel, malicious, spiteful, vindictive, hateful, nasty, vicious, malevolent, sadistic, more...

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Similar:
mean spirited, meanspirited, poor-spirited, bitchy, nasty, bitter, atrabilious, spiteful, cattish, black-hearted, more...

Opposite:
kind, generous, magnanimous, caring, thoughtful, selfless

Types:
cruel, malicious, spiteful, vindictive, hateful, nasty, vicious, malevolent, sadistic, more...



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