Sentence examples similar to ill-spirited mirth from inspiring English sources

The few ill-spirited comments or wisecracks were met with immediate retorts.

They changed wording, removed ill-spirited jabs at Prince Albert and many others, and censored Livingstone's observations on African sexuality.

Persons with disabilities also have been portrayed as ill-spirited.

For fully half a minute there was the sound of off-mike chortling a la 'leg over', until finally Bob replied through ill suppressed mirth 'I haven't, but I imagine they'd be very good offices, if that was what you needed'".

The other side was "angry, vindictive, ill-tempered, mean-spirited," and there's considerable evidence to support that, too.

"I think it was mean-spirited and ill-intended".

I don't want to accuse my colleagues of being mean-spirited or ill-motivated.

A reportedly ill-behaved and free-spirited student, Ruth found an escape in baseball, a sport taught by a Catholic brother at the school.

The government is due to unveil its 2015 budget next month, and anti-austerity rebels will seize any chance they can to condemn it as ill-judged and mean-spirited.

An accurate way to describe him to a layperson would be as a shoddy facsimile of Trump: mean-spirited, racist, ill-informed, pathologically dishonest, and generally clownlike.

"They're just wrong in the law ― their mean-spirited and ill-informed efforts to block Syrian refugee families from resettlement have gone nowhere".