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mean-spirited

/meen-spir-i-tid/US // ˈminˈspɪr ɪ tɪd //

卑鄙的,刻薄,恶毒的,恶毒

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.

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Examples

  • I mean, physically, mentally, you know, in every way, shape, and form.

  • What they actually mean by that is, you know, he actually knows some people that are poor.

  • What does Bondi mean that clerks now should “determine how to proceed”?

  • What is most troubling is our – and I do mean “our” and not “their” – never treating these situations as learning opportunities.

  • They want Marvin to be as mean and as lonely and as trashy as the characters he portrays.

  • Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

  • He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.

  • It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.

  • With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.

  • My husband detests them; on the contrary, I like those carriages, for they tell me of happy—I mean to say, of former times.