poor-spirited

Just half an hour by herself and she might be able to sort out the situation, for to accept it without a struggle seemed to her to be very poor-spirited.

Politics 101 2010

While America is being purposely distracted by Bush's puny, paltry and poor-spirited "War on Terror" and Noah is out shopping for Gucci knock-offs at Target instead of keeping an eye on the ark, our country is being left defenseless, unprotected and without lifeboats while the biggest Flood ever is rapidly heading our way.

Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat & Crowded": Replacing the "War on Terror" with a "War on Global Warming"? 2008

Indeed, though he always demeaned himself with personal kindness towards me, I believe he considered me as a dull and poor-spirited clown, who had disgraced my noble blood by my mean propensities.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

The clergy and the crowd must have been rather ashamed of themselves in secret, I think, for being such poor-spirited knaves.

A Child's History of England 2007

And in the midst of all these solitary resignations and unseen sacrifices, she did not respect herself any more than the world respected her, but I believe thought in her heart that she was a poor-spirited, despicable little creature, whose luck in life was only too good for her merits.

Vanity Fair 2006

This woman was more mistress of the house than the poor-spirited lady who owned it.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

I had the conviction that he could only regard me as a poor-spirited slave, wherefore I now went about to shun his presence and eschew his conversation.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

She never paid the sixpence, though she lost, but contented herself by abusing Mary all day, and said I was a poor-spirited sneak for not instantly horsewhipping Mr. P.

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

Captain Bragg, who thought there was nothing in his passenger, and considered he was a poor-spirited feller at first, was constrained to own that the Major was a reserved but well-informed and meritorious officer.

Vanity Fair 2006

But if even as here circumscribed and limited it should appear to some poor-spirited person a vast work — let him turn to the libraries; and there among other things let him look at the bodies of civil and canonical law on one side, and at the commentaries of doctors and lawyers on the other, and see what

Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History 2005