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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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Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack and Israel’s devastating campaign in Gaza have produced a mutual animosity that won’t soon disappear.—
Dennis Ross,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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Now, nine weeks into the season, animosity between the two sides remains evident.—
Cole Sullivan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The interests of humanity are best served by cooperation, not a policy of antagonism that seeks to slice up the world into unhappy spheres of interest, dominated by modern-day colonial overlords.—
Gustavo Petro,
Time,
9 Nov. 2025
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The historian Odd Arne Westad offers an example of this dynamic in the British-German antagonism that precipitated World War I.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One can be sure that the utility of having hostilities with Venezuela for this case is not lost on the administration.—
David Smilde,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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Before the Chiefs’ Divisional Round win in January 2024, Jones embraced that hostility by jawing with fans during warmups.—
Pete Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Shortly after, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the kidnapping, rape and malice murder charges.—
Veronica Fulton,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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Potential adversaries interpret political action in zero-sum terms; see malice and evil design in mere blunders and coincidence; trumpet necessity rather than navigate choice; and, in extreme cases, invent pretext or promise profit to make more palatable a dubious cause.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The challenge now is not just falling in love against all odds, but staying together in spite of them.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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In spite of Chicago's defensive shortcomings, the team is 5-3 and is right in the thick of playoff contention in the NFC.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The co-parenting seems to go reasonably smoothly, with a minimum of rancor.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
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The move back to Utah was met with rancor from some outdoor industry giants.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There is only scorched earth, and mockery, and enmity.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Orbán has maintained enmity toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and blamed Europe’s support for Kyiv as prolonging the war.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
7 Nov. 2025
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Every way something rolled back is reinstated is a sign that nothing, not even malevolence, is forever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The reality is, the Democrats in Washington are refusing to fund the federal government, while blaming Republicans for their own malevolence.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Mean-spiritedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mean-spiritedness. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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