"mean-spirited" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more mean-spirited",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most mean-spirited",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 15, in A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century",
          "text": "My old acquaintances would sneer at me as a mean-spirited cur, whose best exploit was to get in jail.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition."
      ],
      "id": "en-mean-spirited-en-adj-w4zSSu1p",
      "links": [
        [
          "base",
          "base"
        ],
        [
          "nasty",
          "nasty"
        ],
        [
          "petty",
          "petty"
        ],
        [
          "malevolent",
          "malevolent"
        ],
        [
          "disposition",
          "disposition"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mean spirited"
        },
        {
          "word": "meanspirited"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mean-spirited"
}

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    {
      "form": "more mean-spirited",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most mean-spirited",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "mean-spirited (comparative more mean-spirited, superlative most mean-spirited)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 15, in A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century",
          "text": "My old acquaintances would sneer at me as a mean-spirited cur, whose best exploit was to get in jail.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition."
      ],
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        [
          "base",
          "base"
        ],
        [
          "nasty",
          "nasty"
        ],
        [
          "petty",
          "petty"
        ],
        [
          "malevolent",
          "malevolent"
        ],
        [
          "disposition",
          "disposition"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mean spirited"
    },
    {
      "word": "meanspirited"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mean-spirited"
}