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poor-spirited

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Poor´-spir`it`ed
a.1.Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base.
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Adj.1.poor-spiritedpoor-spirited - lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
pusillanimous, unmanly
cowardly, fearful - lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
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poor-spirited [ˈpʊəˈspɪrɪtɪd] ADJ → apocado, mezquino
poor-spirited
adj person → ängstlich


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But repressed vexation at his son's poor-spirited behavior found expression in his treatment of his daughter.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
I suppose I'm a poor-spirited creature, but that is how I feel.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
He larked with the midshipmen, played single-stick with the mates, ran up the shrouds like a boy, sang a comic song one night to the amusement of the whole party assembled over their grog after supper, and rendered himself so gay, lively, and amiable that even 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 by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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