Adjective

• 1. 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"

• 2. 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"