poor-spirited
[ poor-spir-i-tid ]
adjective
having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit.
Origin of poor-spirited
1First recorded in 1655–65
Words Nearby poor-spirited
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How to use poor-spirited in a sentence
Leave indeed, at your age; but you're a poor-spirited thing, Amy, to be so kept down by a couple of old aunts.
Sowing and Sewing | Charlotte Mary YongeThe Carabinieri, a species of armed police, seem to be a poor-spirited set.
I think it's a dispensation of Providence, and I'd be a poor-spirited mouse to waste the chance.
A Good Samaritan | Mary Raymond Shipman AndrewsBut he went quite quick enough for Margaret, a poor-spirited creature, who had chickens and children on the brain.
Howards End | E. M. ForsterHe was a poor-spirited man without generosity, and without greatness of soul.
Drake, Nelson and Napoleon | Walter Runciman
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