Sentence examples for meanspirited from inspiring English sources

When they were shown, at the Andrea Rosen gallery in 1992, the new pictures struck many observers as sexist and meanspirited.

But he was essentially harmless — small-minded but not meanspirited, ignorant but not unfeeling.

"Veep" is funny and relentlessly meanspirited; the president of the United States, referred to by the insider acronym "Potus," is never seen and is held up as an almost irrelevant bystander.

The musical is crass, meanspirited and often boring.

("Nobody loves you" is the gleefully meanspirited catchphrase with which losing contestants are dispatched at the end of each episode).

Now Pandora lives in Iowa, rich and famous thanks to a company that makes meanspirited talking dolls that mimic real people, thus turning passive aggression into a gift product.

Though Tilly's pranks, unlike Gilly's, don't approach the homicidal, they can be meanspirited, as when Tilly tells her friends (Laura Barbiea and Ronald Peet) that the school bus has left without them, or offers a teacher red-hot cinnamon drops in the guise of strawberry candy.

But that's no real reason to be meanspirited about the result, a compelling advertisement for an honorable profession.

As with every matchup between two teams that know each other so well, it will be a hard-fought and probably a meanspirited series.

"I take offense to a lot of the stuff out there" that is "denigrating, meanspirited and salacious," she added.

To the Editor: I was saddened by how snarky and meanspirited Toni Bentley's review of Naomi Wolf's new book, "Vagina," was.