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基本释义
  • a. 卑鄙的
词形变化
  • 名 词:mean'-spir'it·ed·ness
    副 词:mean'-spir'it·ed·ly
英英解释
  •  2个形容词解释

    1. lacking in magnanimity
      [同] meanspirited, ungenerous
      [反] generous
      [例]
      • a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive
      • it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note
    2. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
      [同] base, mean, meanspirited
      [例]
      • 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