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Definition of mean-minded in English: mean-mindedadjective Uncooperative, unkind, or unfair. a mean-minded fellow who thrusts his way to the top Example sentencesExamples - Many films nominally aimed at children today are relentless, overlong, surprisingly violent and gratuitously mean-minded.
- He's a pious hypocrite and a greedy, petty, stupid, mean-minded crook.
- All we can do this week is appeal to their better nature and urge them to call off their mean-minded vandalism.
- The pensions crisis is not a result of an ageing population, but of a mean-minded political and business class.
- What a suspicious, mean-minded lot we are, never happier than when seeing the confirmation of our worst suspicions about foreigners.
- It was a mean-minded decision to prevent those workers who regularly worked more than 37 hours from getting their full holiday pay.
- We have seen a focus on the reduction of inflation, and, for the most part, a mean-minded approach to social spending.
- Within reason, that should be their right, and not denied them by the worst sort of mean-minded bureaucracy.
- I hate it, and the people are as mean-minded as the town.
- The tragedy is that this mean-minded approach was unnecessary, and is unnecessarily destructive.
Synonyms narrow-minded, petty-minded, petty, mean, mean-spirited, uncharitable, ungenerous, grudging, close-minded, short-sighted, myopic, blinkered, inward-looking, narrow, conventional, unimaginative, parochial, provincial, insular, small-town, localist
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