mean-spirited

Not because his efforts were mean-spirited, cynical, unnecessary, or beset by poor leadership, but because he was engaged in such a brave act of truth-telling that it created huge political liabilities for Democrats who were captive to Big Immigrant.

The incoming president gloated over the resignation of Special Counsel Jack Smith in a mean-spirited endzone dance on Truth Social.

The silver lining in all of this is that Trump and Musk are both mean-spirited narcissists.

But the filmmakers know when to elongate tension elsewhere, as in a deliciously mean-spirited dinner scene in which the Count, armed with his unwitting targets’ secret sins, toys with them, a performance that also betrays an inkling of his cruelty’s perilousness.

The hearing was told the group, used by some officers based in Pudsey, was characterised by "mean-spirited and bullying remarks about colleagues and members of the public".