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Recent Examples of mean-spiritedness
Every day this White House offers up a fresh batch of lawlessness and recklessness and mean-spiritedness and just plain craziness.
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Halle Troadec,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
There’s a weird mean-spiritedness amongst young male losers that is harming them.
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Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
There was a mean-spiritedness that the white COs up in the mountains had for us that the Black and brown ones who guarded us in Sing Sing did not.
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John J. Lennon
september 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
Halle Troadec,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
There’s a weird mean-spiritedness amongst young male losers that is harming them.
—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
There was a mean-spiritedness that the white COs up in the mountains had for us that the Black and brown ones who guarded us in Sing Sing did not.
—
John J. Lennon
september 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mean-spiritedness
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The match is expected to be brutal with much animosity between the two competitors.
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Others warned that Emmer’s comments and the growing animosity towards Somali- and Muslim-American communities marked a regression to a more bigoted era in the United States.
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Sometimes the irony turns bitter and, with a typically Eastern European sensibility, highlights the paradoxes of institutions, as well as the madness and meanness born from the pursuit and preservation of power.
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After 1965, when African Americans’ right to vote was constitutionally recognized, the meanness continued.
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Reynolds uses the modern expression culture war to describe the mutual antagonism; that feels right.
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Ben Green, assistant professor of information at the University of Michigan, told Fortune there’s meanwhile abundant signs that antagonism toward data centers is real and organic.
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Engelbert has consistently mismanaged the overt physical hostility directed at the league's biggest star.
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Today, however, some experts suggest that explicit displays of racial hostility have become more visible in public spaces.
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But on Wednesday, the jury in the latest trial found that MGA had not acted with malice, meaning no punitive damages would be awarded.
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The company’s own investigation points less to malice than to a process that never engaged.
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In spite of their original values of humanitarianism and neutrality, these organizations have been morally debased from within, using the language of human rights and international justice yet deploying it on behalf of autocracies and against the liberal democracies that created them.
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The ball got away from Witt at short in spite of his best efforts to keep it on the infield.
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Those short-term tweaks, rising costs and council rancor led to dual downgrades from ratings agencies earlier this year.
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Yet as the memory of the Civil War faded, the meaning of the symbols changed; the names Sumner and Brooks became emblems of partisan rancor—a cautionary tale about the breakdown of civil discourse.
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After Cape Fear anchors us in those assurances, the men’s enmity continues manipulating our expectations and our beliefs.
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Lalas’ apparent delight in courting the enmity of the American viewing public also extends to his co-hosts—so much so that his early verbal scuffles with Zlatan Ibrahimović have gone more viral than whooping cough.
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“Mean-spiritedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mean-spiritedness. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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