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poor-spirited
[ poor-spir-i-tid ]
adjective
- having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of poor-spirited1
First recorded in 1655–65
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Example Sentences
Leave indeed, at your age; but you're a poor-spirited thing, Amy, to be so kept down by a couple of old aunts.
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The Carabinieri, a species of armed police, seem to be a poor-spirited set.
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I think it's a dispensation of Providence, and I'd be a poor-spirited mouse to waste the chance.
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But he went quite quick enough for Margaret, a poor-spirited creature, who had chickens and children on the brain.
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He was a poor-spirited man without generosity, and without greatness of soul.
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