as in cruel
feeling or showing a desire to cause harm or pain
a mean-spirited person He wrote a mean-spirited book review.
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Recent Examples of mean-spirited
While most are supportive, a fair number are critical, even mean-spirited.
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Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
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Shahana Goswami plays the lead role of a widow who lands the job of a cop due to life’s cruel twists.Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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In a cruel irony, revelers had gathered to welcome a new beginning.Matthew Continetti, National Review, 4 Jan. 2025
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Several fast-growing wildfires fueled by a vicious Southern California wind storm are devastating communities across the Los Angeles region, with homes being burned to the ground and tens of thousands of people evacuating to safety.Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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That’s when Evans, in a full sprint, blindsided Lattimore with a vicious hit in the back and knocked him to the ground.Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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There’s no legal argument to be made against this turn away from fact-checking and towards a more freewheeling, more disinformation-laden, more confusing, more hateful and less illuminating approach.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
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With Zuckerberg’s decision to rescind policies barring hateful speech, he’s made clear that distinction is worth the possibility of political clout come Inauguration Day.Makena Kelly, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
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The net front is the nastiest place on an NHL rink.Chris Branch, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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The second season trailer, which dropped on Wednesday, sees the title character who is played by Amer, who co-created the series with Ramy Youssef, trying to get back into the U.S. from Mexico after becoming entangled with nasty coyotes at the end of the first season in 2022.Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2025
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Many arguments or discussions are often shut down simply because they’re considered unkind, judgy, or not in the undefined spirit of BookTok.CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
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The legal drama is being dumped in less than 50 screens this weekend, an unkind fate for a film critics call a decent programmer.Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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Gone are different colored lines, obnoxious alarms if something is a half-mile away and a way-too-strong back-up warning.James Raia, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
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People think that what plays well on Sunny is, like, loud, obnoxious comedy.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
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Share [Findings] Unaffiliated voters are growing more spiteful toward both Democrats and Republicans.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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The end of the JCPOA made a spiteful Iran even more aggressive.Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2023
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Tamil Nadu’s leaders have long been openly contemptuous of Hindu nationalism, and their governing philosophy represents a powerful alternative to Modi’s worldview.Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
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The Supreme Court could potentially blow up this trend The largest threat to the trend of fewer death sentences and executions is the Supreme Court’s Republican supermajority, which is often contemptuous of precedents handed down by earlier justices who Republican legal elites view as too liberal.Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Mean-spirited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mean-spirited. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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