Green says, "I would never do a mean-spirited, anti-Semitic joke like that - it's both abhorrent and not funny.

Said he now saw it was a mean-spirited joke, and he withdrew it.

With all the predictable bad taste in films, it's quite something to be startled not by mean-spirited jokes, but by an actress's openness.

"Abby, this isn't some mean-spirited joke, is it?"

He upset Donna by playing various mean-spirited jokes on her 3-year old daughter and becoming cold and aloof after the honeymoon.

There is a broad variety of things that katagelasticists would do-starting from harmless pranks or word plays to truly embarrassing and even harmful, mean-spirited jokes.

His postcards to the department were amusing, but left people uncomfortable, like a stand-up comic making mean-spirited jokes at a spouse's expense.

The chimpanzee gains his name from a mean-spirited joke by the other staffers.

Some trainer in Shop equine class, as a mean-spirited joke, must have told her it was required.

Her reaction to this egomania has been a systematic campaign of mean-spirited practical jokes waged against Dutch, including leaving dog manure inside his desk drawer.