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(adj) ungenerous
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
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