| 单词 | meanspirited |
| 例句 | “I never wanted to create a meanspirited show,” he said. ‘Superstore’ Was the Perfect Comedy for Less-Than-Funny Times 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z It was the sort of clever, albeit meanspirited, remark he would have admired back when we were in love. My Marriage: A Course in Desert Survival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Vera, absorbing it, seems more stunned and weary than meanspirited when she replies, “It suits you, Mom.” Theater Review: ‘17 Orchard Point,’ a Tale of a Strained Family 2014-05-07T17:06:16Z Roberts has been particularly meanspirited in gay rights cases. The ‘Enigma’ Who Is the Chief Justice of the United States 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z After him came the reality-TV deluge — not all of it exploitative or meanspirited or cynical, but enough of it. Jerry Springer, American Ringmaster 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Wanda, you said earlier today that you don’t want the jokes to be meanspirited. Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes on Hosting the Oscars 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Trump’s Inaugural Address, Gessen implausibly asserts, was not just meanspirited or poorly written; it “rejected the idea that excellence is desirable” in a conscious effort to diminish the presidency. Is Donald Trump a Danger to Democracy? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z As this strained, foul-mouthed exercise in gallows humor proceeds, “God’s Pocket” sustains a facade of meanspirited deadpan comedy. Movie Review: ‘God’s Pocket’ Is John Slattery’s Directorial Debut 2014-05-08T23:52:09Z “It sounded much more meanspirited and cynical, to tell the story of Karen Carpenter with Barbie dolls, than the actual experience of watching the film,” Mr. Haynes recalled. VHS Film Retrospective at Museum of Arts and Design 2012-06-28T14:00:00Z Some people loathed the show, finding it a meanspirited mess that mixed too many media to no discernible end. ‘Perpetual Revolution’ Shows Artists Shaping Their Times 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z There are also rats, a meanspirited boss, a larcenous employee and of course the customers, who guzzle and chow down while ogling the skimpily dressed waitresses or the blaring TVs. Review: In ‘Support the Girls,’ Sisterhood Is Funny, Essential and Sweet 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Embodying a negative force of energy — in this case, a meanspirited woman who never leaves her rocker if she can help it — doesn’t come as easily. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z Despite its popularity and generally positive press, Sundance has often been the target of a certain amount of mockery, both good-natured and meanspirited. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z “To the outside world and even to peripheral people — producers of recitals, stagehands, page-turners — he could be very meanspirited, sarcastic, rather bitter. And that followed him throughout his life.” Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Noxious characters need not produce noxious films, but the meanspirited humor of “Summer ‘03” is out of place with the perky conventionality of the film’s style. Review: In ‘Summer ’03,’ Coming of Age Is More Bitter Than Sweet 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The characters have been meanspirited, but we as the creators have never been. ‘It’s Always Sunny’ at 13: The Cast Has Evolved, but the Gang? Not So Much 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z She even offers play-by-plays of interviews she did with Ghomeshi to promote her films, diffusing his meanspirited questioning by laughing uproariously, “as though he has just made the best joke of all time.” How Sarah Polley, Child Star and ‘Canada’s Sweetheart,’ Grew Up Way Too Fast 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z But frankly I have been just as condescended to, judged, and ultimately bored by meanspirited, know-it-all Catholic bashers in my life as I have my fellow Christians. No matter what, I’m still Catholic 2013-02-12T20:40:00Z So it seems meanspirited to wish him dead. Books of The Times: ‘One Last Thing Before I Go’ by Jonathan Tropper 2012-08-15T20:45:56Z “He was not rude or meanspirited, but it was clear he wanted his mother to back off.” Anna Quindlen’s No. 1 Rule for Grandparents: Butt Out 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z But it is neither a meanspirited book nor a one-sided one. Books of The Times: ‘Heads in Beds,’ a Memoir by Jacob Tomsky 2012-11-05T22:51:47Z Still, if your sister has not confided in you, it seems meanspirited to bring it up. Social Q?s: A Face-Lift Is Not Worth Mentioning 2012-02-09T19:30:15Z “There is no room at the Met for artists who are so meanspirited in their thinking,” Gelb wrote in the letter. Soprano Withdraws From Opera, Citing ‘Blackface’ in Netrebko’s ‘Aida’ 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z He praised “The Book of Mormon” as an example of a show that satirizes religion but is “not meanspirited.” David Javerbaum’s ‘An Act of God’ Adapts Tweets to Broadway 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Dana Stevens, a film critic at Slate seated at Mr. White’s table, said the outburst was the culmination of meanspirited commentary that Mr. White and his friends had been bandying about all night. Armond White, Ousted Critic, Has Words on Expulsion 2014-01-17T23:09:50Z But “I’ve never let that meanspirited part dampen my love of comics.” In ‘Naomi,’ a Black Girl Comes of Age Heroically 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Chaffee said: “I’m old enough to have been around during the last impeachment, and it was just the same as it is now — meanspirited and evil, on both sides.” Donald Trump Has Drained the Swamp (of Good Christmas Parties) 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z When they watch the videos, I feel like it would be so easy for them to take it in another direction and be more meanspirited. What Megan Mullally Likes: Soft T-Shirts and Sad Songs 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z But as tough as she is, Muneeba isn't meanspirited or undermining. "Ms. Marvel" and the dawn of the strict supermom 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Indeed, Ms. James gave readers protagonists who were less than sympathetic — “frequently meanspirited, selfish, or simply victims of profound emotional exhaustion,” critic Martha Duffy wrote in Time magazine. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94 The film’s meanspirited tone picks on both creatures and humans, like construction workers for being illiterate, animals almost too dumb to survive and the wicked rich. Review: ‘The Nut Job 2’ Squirrels Away the Laughs for Itself 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s reminiscent of “Homeboy,” one of his most meanspirited hits, and the one that most clearly paints him as a man who watches the world go by, complaining rather than engaging with it. Critic’s Notebook: Eric Church’s New Album Is ‘The Outsiders’ 2014-02-12T22:46:46Z He then quotes a letter the elder Bush sent a friend: “Now my own son is under this kind of blistering, meanspirited attack.” Review: In ‘Destiny and Power,’ George H.W. Bush Epitomizes a Vanishing G.O.P. 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z A less meanspirited approach might conclude instead that his failing is what made him one. Review: Putting Arthur Miller on Trial in ‘Fall’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He added that he liked Mr. Baldwin but “his imitation of me is really meanspirited and not very good.” ‘S.N.L.’ Hammers Donald Trump as a ‘Gift’ to Vladimir Putin for Christmas 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z “Incidents when people were harmful and meanspirited and terrifying.” André Leon Talley’s Next Act 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Gruters accused the governor of retribution, calling him “meanspirited” and saying he had chosen to “punish ordinary Floridians” because of a political disagreement. DeSantis’s Taxpayer-Funded Helicopter Ride in Texas Draws Scrutiny 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Opponents of the Florida law say it stands out for being “particularly meanspirited,” as the Human Rights Campaign described it. Judge Sides With Families Fighting Florida’s Ban on Gender Care for Minors 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z He said that their friendship ended in 2014 after lighthearted “ribbing and jabbing” between friends turned “meanspirited,” with Mr. Kohberger sometimes putting him in a headlock hold. Idaho Murder Suspect Had Been a Student of the Criminal Mind 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z It suggested that Republicans have come to conclude that, like Mr. Trump, they will pay no political price for attacks on their opponents, however meanspirited, inflammatory or false. With Falsehoods and Ridicule About Pelosi Attack, Republicans Mimic Trump 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z They say putting migrants on buses or planes, in some cases without telling them where they are headed, appears to voters as meanspirited and cruel. Migrants Flown to Martha’s Vineyard Say They Were Misled 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z He was blunt in response to accusations that he is meanspirited in not accepting the outcome of the primary. India Walton Beat the Buffalo Mayor in a Primary. He Won’t Give Up. 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z He got to be remembered as a man: hilarious, mercurial, genuinely kind but fickle and meanspirited too. Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z “Shame on any politician who will vote for hateful, meanspirited, discriminatory bills.” Trans teenagers fear Alabama push to outlaw gender treatment 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z “Build the Wall” became a mantra at Mr. Trump’s rowdy rallies, the motto of meanspirited and often cruel efforts to close America’s doors to immigrants, especially Muslims or immigrants of color, legal or illegal. Opinion | The President Takes a Campaign Donation From the Pentagon 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z People do not want to work for a man they consider to be overly demanding and meanspirited. Tactics for Expressing Misery in the Office 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Democrats considered it a divisive, meanspirited barrage of lies and slander. From Republicans to Democrats: America is hopefully divided | Geoffrey Kabaservice 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z I found the bank’s “investigation” a whitewash and its explanations to be incoherent, meanspirited and contradicted by a series of internal bank messages that I reviewed. Opinion | She Helped a Customer in Need. Then U.S. Bank Fired Her. 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z He angered ministers with his initial assessment, by accusing the government of inflicting “great misery” on its people with “punitive, meanspirited and often callous austerity policies.” U.K. Austerity Has Inflicted ‘Great Misery,’ U.N. Official Says 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z In his report, however, Alston, the U.N. rapporteur, described some of the government’s social security policies as “punitive, meanspirited and often callous.” Pound Notes, Canned Soup and Common Goals 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z His journey to moguldom began ignobly, with Facemash.com, a meanspirited site that encouraged his fellow male students at Harvard College to rate women on campus by their looks. The Facebook Movie Told Us What We Needed to Know About Mark Zuckerberg 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z She described his campaign to discredit her husband as “crazy and meanspirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed,” as well as dangerous. In Her New Book, Michelle Obama Denounces Trump’s Sexism and His Promotion of the ‘Birther’ Conspiracy 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Advocates for migrants condemned the policy shift as meanspirited and unconstitutional. Trump Suspends Some Asylum Rights, Calling Illegal Immigration ‘a Crisis’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The media limelight has been harsh this week, bringing a flood of internet criticism that he said he found meanspirited. Painting Shows Trump Hanging Out With Lincoln and Nixon. He Loves It. 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z But the terrorism-related ads are the most striking in a slew of negative, sometimes meanspirited messages unleashed by Republicans this fall. Attack Ads Against Some Democrats Try to Portray Them as Terrorists 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Democrats may scoff at Republicans’ work requirements, but they have yet to challenge the dominant conception of poverty that feeds such meanspirited politics. Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Critics of the president accused him of preparing to impose a meanspirited policy that would harm women’s health. Trump Rule Would Bar Some Abortion Advice at Federally Funded Clinics 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The fur on their paws conceals appendages so similar to our own that meanspirited pranksters will occasionally leave a skinned bear paw in public to startle people who confuse them with human hands. As Winter Warms, Bears Can’t Sleep. And They’re Getting Into Trouble. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Despite such exemptions, Democrats called the new policy inhumane, meanspirited and malicious, echoing criticism of work requirements in a welfare law adopted in 1996. Trump Administration Says States May Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Indeed, ABC executives and producers for the show are convinced that Dr. Shaun Murphy, the main character of “The Good Doctor,” plays to a wide audience because he is innocent and never meanspirited. How ABC Found a Surprise Hit in ‘The Good Doctor’ 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z “The irony and meanspirited nature of the cuts is breathtaking,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, said in a statement on Friday. With Federal Cuts to Hospitals, Cuomo Suggests New York City Step Up 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Immigration activists reject such demands as meanspirited and much too far-reaching. On ‘Dreamers’ Deal, Democrats Face a Surprising Foe: The Dreamers 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Others are designed to be a little more meanspirited. The Original Fake News: Soccer Transfers 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z “This is a big victory for Dreamers amid months of draconian and meanspirited immigration enforcement policy,” said David Leopold, an immigration lawyer. Trump Will Allow ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S., Reversing Campaign Promise 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Mulvaney was unapologetic about a fiscal approach that critics found meanspirited and in conflict with an American tradition of asking the haves to provide for the have-nots. Republicans Will Reject Trump’s Budget, but Still Try to Impose Austerity 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z In that time, the speakers have gotten edgier, more in-your-face and sometimes even meanspirited. The Conservative Force Behind Speeches Roiling College Campuses 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z And I don’t think the American people, the middle class, are meanspirited about it. Today’s Senator John Kennedy Is From Louisiana 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z History will have the final word on this feckless, meanspirited Congress and their vile president-elect. House Clears Path for Repeal of Health Law 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z “Voters find themselves in the middle of a meanspirited, scorched-earth campaign between two candidates they don’t like.” Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Deadlocked, Poll Shows 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z “His meanspirited response, and trying to seize the political opportunity,” Mr. Hickenlooper said of Mr. Trump, was unfair to “the injured victims and their family members.” Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado Rips Donald Trump’s Reaction to Orlando Shooting 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Hillary Clinton joined that chorus this month when she described Mr. Cruz as a “meanspirited guy.” In College Roommate David Panton, Ted Cruz Finds Unwavering Support 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, called the law “meanspirited.” North Carolina Governor Attacks Critics of Law Curbing Protections From Bias 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z While nowhere near as reactionary or meanspirited, being smarter than the other guy was a feature of the Jon Stewart era of political comedy. “Idiocracy’s” curdled politics: The beloved dystopian comedy is really a celebration of eugenics 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z “What I really find so appalling,” Mrs. Clinton said, “Is the insulting, meanspirited, derogatory language that is used — starting first and foremost against our president,” drawing hums of “amen” from the crowd. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Turn Focus to South Carolina, Courting Black Leaders 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z His meanspirited attacks on minorities, disabled reporters and women who disagree with him do not subtract his support: quite the opposite. Donald Trump is the bloated narcissist the Christian right has been searching for all along 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The fact that European passport-holders pose a much greater threat than fleeing Syrians barely disturbed this meanspirited chorus. This land is our land 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z I don’t mean bad in its execution — it’s that, too — but I mean meanspirited, reaching for the worst in us and appealing to the worst among us. Aaron Sorkin Thinks We’re All Too Mean 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “Today, conservatism is much more meanspirited, angry, not optimistic and much more viscerally divisive,” said Matthew Dowd, a former top strategist for President George W. Bush. Gloomy Republican Campaigns Leave Behind Reagan Cheer 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z In a different scene, the addition of a short, stocky woman as a laughingstock among a bevy of willowy chorus girls seems meanspirited. Get-Rich Scheme Goes Comically Awry in ‘The Producers’ 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z There were times when the discussions grew heated, though never meanspirited. In Jury Room at Etan Patz Trial, Difficult Talks That Stalled 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Angie told me she prohibits her writers from making meanspirited comments about someone’s looks, weight or family. Instagram’s TMZ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Another service, Secret, which allows people to share gossipy tidbits anonymously, came under fire this year over meanspirited posts on its platform. Trying to Swim in a Sea of Social Media Invective 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Some, like Mike Fleming Jr. of Deadline, denounced the site, calling it “reprehensible, meanspirited and disgusting.” Anonymous Site Spurs Talks Between Nikki Finke and Ex-Boss 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “The caricature that’s been painted of me isn’t accurate. I realized after all this that many of my tweets came off meanspirited in a way I never intended, hence my apology.” Technology’s Man Problem 2014-04-05T21:30:01Z Not in a meanspirited fashion, but in a knowing, winking way. Political Memo: Finding Love in Iowa, but Maybe Not Votes 2013-09-16T01:38:33Z David Vinjamuri, author of “Accidental Branding” and an adjunct professor of marketing at New York University, said that naming competitors in advertising was risky because consumers may perceive the advertiser as “meanspirited or petty.” Advertising: In Criticizing Rival Products, a Dove Campaign Is Called Unfair 2013-06-25T00:02:58Z As with every matchup between two teams that know each other so well, it will be a hard-fought and probably a meanspirited series. Off the Dribble: N.B.A. Playoffs — Pacers’ Advantages Face Greater Test in Heat 2013-05-20T03:00:14Z And two, the chief tormentor of Robinson, Manager Ben Chapman, is portrayed exactly as he was in life: a meanspirited, unreconstructed bigot. Essay: Jackie Robinson and a Barrier Unbroken 2013-05-18T15:44:33Z But in the meanspirited Republican/Fox News lexicon, “amnesty” has come to mean coddling criminals. Op-Ed Columnist: Selling Amnesty 2013-02-04T03:18:17Z But that's no real reason to be meanspirited about the result, a compelling advertisement for an honorable profession. Books: Nurses, Addicted to Helping People 2012-10-29T19:48:36Z The musical is crass, meanspirited and often boring. | Long Island: A Review of ‘9 to 5: The Musical,’ at the Patchogue Theater 2012-07-28T00:07:48Z I don’t ever remember a time when there wasn’t something said that was hurtful and meanspirited. The New Old Age Blog: The Undeserving Parent 2011-10-20T16:19:10Z I mean the practice of certain meanspirited wretches, who bear malice towards particular performers, and make parties to hiss them off the stage. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 They are but few and meanspirited that live in peace with all men. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great |
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