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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
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Chinese analysts also reflect an acute awareness from Beijing of the entrenched challenges in resolving a conflict where the two sides have little trust and much animosity.—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2026
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To hear the ambassador tell it, the animosity exhibited by Hungary’s government doesn’t reflect its society’s sentiments.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Would there be perpetual meanness and the absence of kindness toward each other as human beings?—
Kevin Powell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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The result is a movie where the jokes are just mean, and the meanness isn’t funny, leading to a cynical denouement that’s been done many times before.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
16 Mar. 2026
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As ideological blocs collapsed, political scientist Samuel Huntington’s influential 1996 book Clash of Civilizations articulated a growing anxiety that globalization would harden into cultural antagonism rather than consensus.—
Daniel Birnbaum,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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Yosef’s relationship with his sister, Azraa, hums with the familiar chords of siblinghood — antagonism and refuge intertwined.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Their defensive style can look like arrogance or hostility.—
Paul Sanchez Ruiz,
The Conversation,
6 Apr. 2026
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Out of such poverty comes hatred, resentment and a desire for revenge, and this cycle of hostility can continue for years.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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Officers arrested Granger on Tuesday and charged him with rape, aggravated assault, malice murder, and two counts of felony murder.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Peterson said there was no evidence of malice by Dance and that good faith is presumed for public officers.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But that other supplier would have to try to reverse engineer that particular dye—formulas for dyes and colorants were, in spite of being in service to the war effort, still proprietary—and backward engineering color from a finished product is a crapshoot.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
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This was in spite of the defendants being allowed in the course of the trial to note that Gutierrez had a prior conviction.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Thursday meeting of the independent group lacked any such rancor.—
O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
19 Mar. 2026
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The two no longer spar on air, so expect mirth rather than rancor at Foxwoods’ Premier Theater.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2026
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The unusually blunt readout underscores what could be a long enmity between the region and Tehran, with Arab Gulf states concluding that Iran’s drones, missiles, and proxies — essentially the regime itself — pose a regional threat.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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Washington is looking to keep momentum in its yearlong push to stop the fighting and overcome deep enmity between the warring countries.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Feb. 2026
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