意地の悪い

mean-spirited

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phrase Rare #36,989
mean-spirited Describes someone or something unkind, spiteful, or deliberately unpleasant. It can modify people, remarks, behavior, or animals.
JA: そんな意地の悪い言い方をしないで。
EN: Don't put it in such a mean-spirited way.

彼の意地の悪い発言講義一層激しくなった

His malicious remarks made the lecture even more heated.

意地の悪い動物います

Some animals are mean, too.

イングランドたいへん意地の悪い王様が住んでいた

Once upon a time, there lived a very mean king in England.

なんで意地の悪いこと言うの

Why are you saying such mean things?

— 動くな、死ね、甦れ! (1990)