Usually means: Hostile or cruel in intention.
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  1. mean spirited: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mean-spirited: Merriam-Webster
  3. mean-spirited: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mean-spirited: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mean-spirited, mean-spirited: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mean-Spirited, Mean-spirited, mean-spirited: Wordnik
  7. mean-spirited, mean spirited: Wiktionary
  8. mean-spirited: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Mean-spirited, mean-spirited: Dictionary.com
  10. Mean-spirited: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. mean-spirited: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Mean-spirited: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. mean-spirited: FreeDictionary.org
  14. mean-spirited: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (Mean spirited)

adjective:  Alternative spelling of mean-spirited [Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition; tawdry.]

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