meanspirited

  • (a) 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
    ungenerous,
  • (s) 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
    mean, base,

Synonyms

ungenerous mean base

Antonyms

generous

See also

stingy ungenerous

Words of close approximity

meanspiritedly