(adj) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; - Edmund Burke; ; - Shakespeare, Syn. meanspirited, mean, Example:that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble; taking a mean advantage; chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort; something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics
(adj) lacking in magnanimity; - Times Litt. Sup., Syn. meanspirited, Ant. generous, Example:it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note; a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive