poor-spirited

Leave indeed, at your age; but you're a poor-spirited thing, Amy, to be so kept down by a couple of old aunts.

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.

But he went quite quick enough for Margaret, a poor-spirited creature, who had chickens and children on the brain.

He was a poor-spirited man without generosity, and without greatness of soul.