"it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup."a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive"
2. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;
"that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke"taking a mean advantage""chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare"something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"