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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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At a time when the United States has tense relationships with many of its overseas allies, international tourists' appreciation of American culture offers a counterpoint to the animosity between politicians.
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And yet Joe and Angela’s animosity is underscored by an absence of song.
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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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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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Today, the antagonism between the defendants and the system judging them took the shape of civilized disagreement.
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The accord called for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a halt to hostilities across the region, including in Lebanon.
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The memorandum of understanding calls for an end to all hostilities, including in Lebanon, where Israeli forces have been fighting Hezbollah.
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Although Ashley had alleged things like malice, ill-will and improper motives by Adam, that still fell short of proving that Adam knew that his statements were false.
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The documentary explores the dark web of fraud, deception and malice that led Parker to feign a pregnancy to try to bolster her relationship with boyfriend Wade Griffin — and when her fake due date passed, kill Hancock for her baby, Braxlynn Sage.
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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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Trae Young won Madison Square Garden’s undying enmity in the 2021 playoffs for the Atlanta Hawks, punctuating game-breaking shots by shushing the crowd or bowing to the fans and waving goodbye.
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By the time the series moved to Chicago, the enmity between the New York and Chicago teams—and between the Yankees’ and the Cubs’ fans—was focused on Ruth.
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