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Adjective
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- that 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
- 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