Spirited used in a sentence

Spirited in a sentence as an adjective

What a mean-spirited thing to say, and to upvote.

Who knows what it could grow into one day?You might not have intended to be so mean-spirited.

For trying to succeed doing something they love, making a go of it for years, and then trying something else?This is just mean-spirited, this is just cruel.

The rhetoric of this protection is of course always public spirited; the reality is something different.

I remember making a spirited reply to Yudkowsky and only noticing who he was when he replied back - but I think my not being intimidated lead to a far more productive thread than if I had seen in the first place.

And I guess that we're all thinking \n how sad it is that a man of such talent, of such capability for kindness, of \n such unusual intelligence, should now so suddenly be spirited away at the age \n of only forty-eight, before he'd achieved many of the things of which he was \n capable, and before he'd had enough fun. Well, I feel that I should say: non-\n sense.

It's intellectually dishonest and a cheap ploy to avoid saying "well, let them die".The entire stance - or at least, the stance in the way it seems to be most commonly expressed - is fundamentally mean-spirited, made all the more galling by the disingenuous reframing.

The quality and content of HN seems remarkably improved in the last year:- Karma became invisible- Steve Jobs passed away- Gruber posts started getting flagged- Android came neck and neck with iOS then surpassed it, then Apple started suing- a few overhyped, overvalued, overinvested-in companies popped in very public waysIn fact the discussions about the above things have been some of the most spirited, invigorating discussions on HN in a long while.