Source : WordNet®

meanspirited
     adj 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}]
     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}]