poor-spirited

[ poor-spir-i-tid ]

adjective
  1. having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit.

Origin of poor-spirited

1
First 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 Yonge
  • The 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 Andrews
  • But he went quite quick enough for Margaret, a poor-spirited creature, who had chickens and children on the brain.

    Howards End | E. M. Forster
  • He was a poor-spirited man without generosity, and without greatness of soul.

    Drake, Nelson and Napoleon | Walter Runciman