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Ill-humoured

adjective
1.
Brusque and surly and forbidding.  Synonyms: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored.  "A crusty old man" , "His curmudgeonly temper" , "Gruff manner" , "A gruff reply"






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"Ill-humoured" Quotes from Famous Books



... apartments, where, solitary and dejected, her hours moved heavily along, embittered by incessant anxiety for Julia, by regret for the lost society of madame. The marchioness, whose pleasures suffered a temporary suspense during the present confusion at the castle, exercised the ill-humoured caprice, which disappointment and lassitude inspired, upon her remaining subject. Emilia was condemned to suffer, and to endure without the privilege of complaining. In reviewing the events of the last few weeks, she saw those most dear to her banished, or imprisoned by the secret influence ...
— A Sicilian Romance • Ann Radcliffe

... the Bear that shines in London—a great rough, surly animal. His Christian name is Dr. Johnson. 'Tis a singular creature; but if you stroke him he will not bite, and though he growls sometimes he is not ill-humoured.' ...
— A Book of Sibyls - Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen • Anne Thackeray (Mrs. Richmond Ritchie)

... the House in the Water who were moving about the pond, this retreat being occupied by their wounded and ill-humoured champion. The inhabitants of the other house, over on the shore, who had been interested but remote spectators through all the strange events of the morning, were now in comfortable seclusion, resting till it should be counted a safe time to go about their affairs. Some were sleeping, or gnawing ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts

... a couch at some distance from his host and had declined every morsel offered to him by the waiting-maids; but he had drunk over freely, and his good-looking young face looked flushed and dark beneath its wealth of curls. Unlike his usual self he was ill-humoured and almost morose to-night, and there was a dark, glowering look in his eyes as from time to time he cast furtive ...
— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... bored, too often frankly ill-humoured Lady Brigit stepped out of the darkness into the homely ...
— The Halo • Bettina von Hutten


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