mean-spiritedness

noun

Definition of mean-spiritednessnext
as in animosity

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  1. animosity
  2. antagonism
  3. hostility
  4. malice
  5. spite
  6. rancor
  7. enmity
  8. malevolence
Noun
  • So filmmaker Zack Snyder, who’d taken over as visionary leader of the DCEU, was forced to gut much of his film’s central motivations for Batman’s and Superman’s animosity toward one another, and removing most of Superman’s emotional and heroic arc in the process.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The visit is being investigated in connection with the alleged killer’s apparent animosity towards the healthcare industry.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of animosity
Noun
  • Both women seem stuck in a cycle of mutual antagonism, leaving us to wonder how long the truce will last before someone gets triggered again.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Iran’s leadership is steeped in antagonism toward both Israel and the United States, and the regime’s investment in its nuclear program and proxy network has been key to its survival strategy.
    Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of antagonism
Noun
  • Soon afterward, the U.S. said the system would not be deployed to Ukraine, with deputy Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh telling reporters that the war between Russia and Ukraine differed to hostilities in the Middle East.
    Michael D. Carroll AND Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • In January, the World Bank and Ipsos, a market research firm, estimated that nearly 60% of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure had been damaged or destroyed by hostilities.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of hostility
Noun
  • Davenport was charged with malice murder, battery and criminal trespass.
    KC Baker, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Beard's mother, Lizette Bowers, says her son was acting out of love, not malice.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of malice
Noun
  • So why, in spite of that growth, was 2024’s unifying hypothesis that dating apps failed?
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The report gives fresh voice to allegations of misconduct that have circulated around Gaetz for years, in spite of his firm denials.
    Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of spite
Noun
  • The evolution of the rule started around 2016, when club owner Josh Parise says he was getting fed up with the rancor of political discourse in the U.S. — personal attacks were on the rise, even within families, as was cancel culture.
    Robert Benincasa, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The Times reports America First has intentionally kept its activities quiet amid Trump’s rancor over Project 2025, operating largely under wraps as Project 2025 has grabbed national headlines.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of rancor
Noun
  • The closest parallel was nearly 50 years ago, when then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat jettisoned decades of enmity and abruptly announced his readiness to travel to Israel, kickstarting diplomacy that led to a peace treaty.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
  • That space the evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of enmity
Noun
  • Eastwood’s story runs on the bedrock of the unimpeachable, confident that there is a definite truth to be discovered about an event such as the killing of Kendall and that only malevolence or incompetence could prevent its discovery.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • What Uzumaki never loses is the core idea that the human body is a malleable, spongy thing, available to absorb both kindness, compassion, and good energy and malevolence, evil, and brutality.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of malevolence
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