ill nature

American  

noun

1. unkindly or unpleasant disposition.

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Etymology

Origin of ill nature

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

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ill nature

This wrestling has cost the Castigator ill nature, megalomania, nervous breakdowns and the creatures of his forced moods are far less credible, as contemporary humanity, than Hogarth's Gin Alleyites, Swift's Anglo-Lilliputs or even Dante's infernals.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the woman seemed to be giving vent to her own ill nature in an evidently customary and certainly vivid way.

From In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets

With all this ill nature, Fidget is herself young, rich, and handsome; but loses the pleasure of all those qualities, because she has them in common with others.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various

A bad temper, ill nature, jealousy, will ruin the most beautiful face ever created.

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It’s now twa month that I’m your debtor For your braw, nameless, dateless letter, Abusin’ me for harsh ill nature On holy men, While deil a hair yoursel’ ye’re better, But mair profane.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns