ill-humoured

"Oh, vewy well," says Cardigan, damned ill-humoured; his voice was a mere croak, no doubt with his roupy chest, or over-boozing on his yacht.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

• And we suffer the usual angry exchanges in the Commons as speaker John Bercow struggles to stop the personal attacks and ill-humoured politicking.

Diary Hugh Muir 2010

On meeting a flock of these little busybodies the most ill-humoured observer is forced to burst into laughter.

The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey 2009

Mrs Harrel declared herself unequal to following this advice, and said that her whole study was to find Mr Harrel amusement, for he was grown so ill-humoured and petulant she quite feared being alone with him.

Cecilia 2008

It is recommended that the wet-nurse, whose services are obtained for a child, should be Shia Ithna-Asheri, sane, chaste, and good looking; and it is Makrooh undesired for a wet-nurse to be a non-Shia Ithna-Asheri or ugly, ill-humoured or illegitimate.

Friday, February 29, 2008 As'ad 2008

What women to live with! insincere, ill-humoured, bloodless, brainless non-entities!

Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005

Whereupon Captain Fizgig got an appointment in the colonies, and Miss Brough became more ill-humoured than ever.

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

In a word, I found that Berry, like many simple fellows before him, had made choice of an imperious, ill-humoured, and underbred female for a wife, and could see with half an eye that he was a great deal too much her slave.

Mens Wives 2006

She never liked to come back to the house after she had left it, or to face the landlady who had tyrannized over her when ill-humoured and unpaid, or when pleased had treated her with a coarse familiarity scarcely less odious.

Vanity Fair 2006

She was not grateful, or ungrateful, or unkind, or ill-humoured.

The History of Pendennis 2006