Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition.
- adjective Spiteful; nasty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a bad nature or character.
- Having a bad temper; churlish; crabbed; surly; spiteful: as, an ill-natured person.
- Indicating ill nature.
- Of uncertain temper; petulant; peevish; intractable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; -- of people. Opposite of
good-natured . - adjective Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful.
- adjective rare Intractable; not yielding to culture.
- adjective not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable. Opposite of
agreeable .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
bad-tempered ,irritable ormalevolent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
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Examples
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Bailey has made this ill-natured drama look as if it has a heart.
The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012
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Some ill-natured folks might think that my thesis was undermined by the contests for 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and (until recently) 2011.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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You may think me ill-natured, but if you consider how hard it is to swallow an injury done by a person for whom I have such tenderness, you may begin to understand my distress.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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You may think me ill-natured, but if you consider how hard it is to swallow an injury done by a person for whom I have such tenderness, you may begin to understand my distress.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Some ill-natured folks might think that my thesis was undermined by the contests for 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and (until recently) 2011.
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The brethren of the aggiornamentist - brotherly-love persuasion have once again shown themselves to be thoroughly ill-natured and petty.
Anglican Use News John 2009
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The brethren of the aggiornamentist - brotherly-love persuasion have once again shown themselves to be thoroughly ill-natured and petty.
Solemn High Traditional Mass at St Peter's Basilica - the First in 40 Years John 2009
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Some have followed the ongoing line of ill-natured attack intending more to be argumentative than contributory to a dialogue.
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Some have followed the ongoing line of ill-natured attack intending more to be argumentative than contributory to a dialogue.
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“A noisy and ill-natured wrangling, about the designs of the framers or opposers of the constitution, can answer no other purpose than to injure or disgrace us.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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