In that context, it seems downright mean-spirited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Correctness Has Passed Me By] Reference

It was childish and mean-spirited, but I really enjoyed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: When Reality Trumps Fantasy] Reference

Blackmun's question was mean-spirited, but the justice is mad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Court's Case Of Nerves] Reference

Rarely, though, does Green's humor come across as mean-spirited.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wild And Crazy Guy] Reference

"This book comes from a nasty, mean-spirited place," says Geffen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bad And Not So Beautiful] Reference

He felt that it was mean-spirited, and he opposed it at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Obama's position on gay marriage sustainable?] Reference

What a horrible, mean-spirited thing to do, rasped the Daily Star.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Faces Of Gordon Brown] Reference

But it is not the mean-spirited comfort of misery enjoying company.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Good Girl, A Great Woman] Reference

"Starting to treat people like adults is not mean-spirited," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics Of Ignorance] Reference

"He's a mean-spirited lowlife, a snake in the grass," exploded one Clintonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton's Growing Pains] Reference

Constructive comments are also appreciated, but please don't be mean-spirited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claudia Ricci: Call me Ishmael? No, Just Email Me Your Choice Instead!] Reference

He was an awkward, demanding, mean-spirited git from time to time, I assure you.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Lawrence Of Arabia': The Star's Version] Reference

What is that repetitive, mean-spirited voice saying to you about your mothering?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tara Sophia Mohr: Negotiating Mommy Guilt vs. Mommy Wisdom?] Reference

I'm not sure how an app version of my (sometimes mean-spirited) blog would fare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple finally lays out App Store rules - and makes clear it's still in charge] Reference

Even when our policy differences were sharp, he was never mean-spirited about it.    From Wordnik.com.  ['STRONG, STRONG BELIEFS'] Reference

And now he's getting a run of good press in Britain's notoriously mean-spirited tabloids.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Toast Of The Tabloids] Reference

Now comes the catchy, mean-spirited "Who Were You Thinkin 'Of," the Tornados 'first single.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas's Lone Stars Team Up] Reference

The 1988 presidential campaign was the most boring, mean-spirited and banal of recent memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Stooped To Conquer] Reference

McCain and Obama have now settled into a mean-spirited and depressingly familiar tit-for-tat.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Prize to the Noble Loser] Reference

"" We're in a time where people want to laugh at things that aren't mean-spirited, '' he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Warning 2] Reference

Zuma is "less mean-spirited, and more connected to the concerns of ordinary citizens," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transforming Jacob Zuma] Reference

"He is the most mean-spirited, over-the-top candidate we've ever seen," says spokesman Mark Drake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting To Know You] Reference

Yet there is no condemnation of Ono's statements as being crass, mean-spirited and just plain wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Origin of the Species] Reference

"He does it without being mean-spirited, which is a refreshing change," says Fox News anchor O'Reilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truthiness Teller] Reference

As for his behavior, a spokeswoman for Universal says Woody is less mean-spirited than in the old days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woody Gets A '90S Makeover] Reference

Yet strangely enough, it doesn't feel angry or polemical or (and this is open to debate) mean-spirited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Funny- Or Too Far?] Reference

And so much of what now comes out of his mouth is stunningly mean-spirited, as well as transparent lies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: An All Too Kobe Christmas] Reference

Forgetful, over-committed, but not nasty or intentionally mean-spirited. just self-involved and excusable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not All Bridges Can Be Burned] Reference

Today's children are more selfish, mean-spirited, disrespectful and lazy than children of previous generations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

It won't surprise a lot of workers to learn that their mean-spirited supervisor has secret feelings of inadequacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Toxic Boss] Reference

Rosie O'Donnell earns all of those Thanksgiving puns with her low-rated, occasionally mean-spirited, live-TV turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t Put Me In, Coach] Reference

Though he found the film "mean-spirited," he was impressed with actor (and "ER" star) Noah Wyle's impersonation of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple?S Ibook: A Mac To Go] Reference

I can say unequivocally that Giuliani was the most divisive, racist, mean-spirited, inflexible mayor in the past 50 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Magazine] Reference

Public pronouncements rarely make any of this sound hard for anyone, since they're too often based on mean-spirited assumptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clinic: A No-Spin Zone] Reference

To many, Cameron's journalistic hissy fit seemed petty and mean-spirited, another example of his need to throw his weight around.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Court Of King Jim] Reference

By turns gracious and crude, Falwell was a maddening combination of worthy, lofty ambition — and mean-spirited, uncaring ignorance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kingdom and the Power] Reference