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Mean-spirited vs Beggarly - What's the difference?

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Mean-spirited is a related term of beggarly.


As adjectives the difference between mean-spirited and beggarly

is that mean-spirited is having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition while beggarly is in the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.

As an adverb beggarly is

in an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

mean-spirited

English

Alternative forms

*mean spirited *meanspirited

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a base, nasty, petty, or malevolent disposition.
  • *1877 , , A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century , ch. 15,
  • *:My old acquaintances would sneer at me as a mean-spirited cur, whose best exploit was to get in jail.

    • References

    * * *Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.

    beggarly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
    • beggarly fellow
  • Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
    • beggarly rags
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation.
  • (by extension) inadequate or meagre.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * beggarliness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.