Example sentences for: mean-spirited

How can you use “mean-spirited” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Stupid as it sounds, sitting as we are on the cusp of this new millennium, women still lead sharply circumscribed lives trimmed in by mean-spirited nonsense that's meant to keep them down.

  • The Fray's reputation as a home for hostile, rude, and mean-spirited exchanges suffered a severe beating at the hands of the "Reading" thread, which was so civilized that participants suggested taking insulin shots afterward.

  • Reagan's persona was genial but addlepated old fool; Thurmond's was mean-spirited but concupiscent old racist.

  • Reviewers don't quarrel much with the biography's slant, though they almost all deride it as "mean-spirited."

  • Culturebox's first thought on reading Diana: In Search of Herself , Sally Bedell Smith's deliriously mean-spirited (though boringly written) catalog of all the ways the late fairy-tale princess turns out to have been troubled, trite, and exasperating, is that the British public didn't get its money's worth from the girl.


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