mean-spiritedness

noun

Definition of mean-spiritednessnext
as in animosity

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mean-spiritedness
  1. animosity
  2. antagonism
  3. hostility
  4. malice
  5. spite
  6. rancor
  7. enmity
  8. malevolence
Noun
  • Many sided with the owner, arguing that his girlfriend's animosity toward the dog is a bad sign.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Brady reportedly isn’t friendly with Valente, but according to the Daily Mail, there’s no great animosity between them either.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of animosity
Noun
  • Fear, the emotion that predominates in Le Corbeau, seems familiar — lingering from the tyrannical Covid lockdowns, Stasi-like doxxing, denunciations, and the social antagonism endured through political partisanship.
    Armond White, National Review, 20 Nov. 2024
  • In 2018, Stephen Bannon, a former campaign strategist for Mr. Trump, framed this antagonism in stark terms.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of antagonism
Noun
  • Did the hostility between Administration and newspaper come back to haunt Nixon?
    John Tamny, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • All Greeks were guaranteed safe passage traveling to or from the contests (though the popular idea that all inter-state hostilities ceased may be a myth).
    Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of hostility
Noun
  • He was indicted on 55 counts, including four counts each of malice murder and felony murder.
    Andy Rose, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Simon was on 19 charges last month, including malice murder, felony murder, concealing the death of another, false report of a crime and making a false statement.
    Jenna Sundel, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of malice
Noun
  • The world’s going to get warmer, more unhealthy and more dangerous in spite of burying our collective heads in the sand.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In spite of public scrutiny, Congress has managed to keep itself among the highest paying professions.
    Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of spite
Noun
  • For all the partisan rancor in debates about foreign policy today, this new paradigm should—and likely will—continue to define U.S. policy.
    James F. Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The rancor between the two men has persisted and grown since the Hamas attack last October.
    Tara John, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of rancor
Noun
  • In a sign of growing enmity, first lady Liza Araneta-Marcos disclosed her ill feelings toward Sara Duterte in a radio interview in April.
    Jim Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
  • As the difficulties continue, a viewer can rightly wonder, what on earth possessed Timoner and Waterman to begin this journey with such a deep focus on religion, often the cause of ancient and ongoing enmity?
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 23 Nov. 2024
Definition of enmity
Noun
  • Eastwood’s story runs on the bedrock of the unimpeachable, confident that there is a definite truth to be discovered about an event such as the killing of Kendall and that only malevolence or incompetence could prevent its discovery.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • What Uzumaki never loses is the core idea that the human body is a malleable, spongy thing, available to absorb both kindness, compassion, and good energy and malevolence, evil, and brutality.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of malevolence
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