31. That achievement is a testament to her friend's " wide-spiritedness ," 32. "The yakuza have a sense of chivalry, of public spiritedness , " he insisted. 33. It is a glorious tribute to the public-spiritedness and vision of New Yorkers at their best. 34. One is Toby Ruben, an authentic character who slips into mean-spiritedness when she feels threatened. 35. Although the knapsack implies a certain boyish free-spiritedness , the wearer is infrequently a free spirit. 36. He said there would be " no element of mean-spiritedness " in his hearings. 37. COMMENT . Joyner and Simmons are great acquisitions and will give the Cardinals'hardnosed defense added mean spiritedness . 38. The mean-spiritedness , the desire to create an us-versus-them, that bothers me, 39. In many cases, mean-spiritedness in these TV comedies is the problem, not violence or sex. 40. What makes it a thing of the'90s is its way of linking patriotism and mean-spiritedness .