Example Sentences

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“You want to run before you can walk,” she returned with ill-humoured sarcasm.

From The Triumph of Jill by Young, F.E. Mills

With uncertain steps, ill-humoured, To his mountain-home he totters: And the silent night is witness Of some sudden headlong tumbles.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

He continued thus for weeks, a miserable, ill-humoured, irritated and troubled man.

From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by Roussel, John

So she stood, slender and serious; yes, ill-humoured, and gazed upon the fourth person of the company, who was just then engaged in his performance.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

I had, as a matter of fact, sunk into a state of pessimistic apathy, which naturally found expression in ill-humoured pleasantries lately, but I have been getting to work again.

From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold