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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.
—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
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
Noun
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The cost of flights and accommodation is too much for many, and animosity towards Saudi Arabia runs deeply among many Americans.—
Robert Niles,
Oc Register,
6 Jan. 2026
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By contrast, Venezuela is vastly larger in size and population and has a decades-long history of animosity toward the United States.—
Matthew Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Trump’s antagonism toward Greenland has also changed Danish views about European unity.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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Emmer has been a staunch opponent of Walz for some time, whose antagonism for the governor heightened once Walz became the vice presidential running mate to former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.—
Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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After years of fighting for its survival in the face of hacks and growing regulatory hostility, crypto’s fortunes abruptly change.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
8 Jan. 2026
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Jewish and civil rights groups blasted the move as weakening safeguards, fueling criticism that Mamdani’s early agenda signals hostility toward Israel and the Jewish community.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In Jewish terms, our own hearts start to harden, not out of malice, but out of survival.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
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Prosecutors could not prove malice in the case.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But that’s often in spite of, not because of, government design.—
Sal Rodriguez,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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Jennings is held together by tape, adrenaline, and pure spite.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The debates will show how the power of America's earliest principles — civil, substantive discussion, free of rancor — have immense value today.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Dec. 2025
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The co-parenting seems to go reasonably smoothly, with a minimum of rancor.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As the two wander around the museum—one pressuring, the other deflecting—the novel portrays their professed enmity as underscored by the force of attraction, even of love.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2026
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The fan bases have a long-standing enmity, and the players don’t much like each other either.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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There are cheerful barging amateurs, happy to be bounced about, and there are prowling malevolences, waiting for the moment to blindside someone or chuck an elbow in their face.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
16 Dec. 2025
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Technical contributions are aces: Robert Richardson’s garish but subdued lighting clues us to the malevolence beneath the glitter, while Thelma Schoonmaker Powell’s editing perfectly punctu ates the frenzy.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Nov. 2025
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“Mean-spiritedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mean-spiritedness. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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