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

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

You are angry now, who cares? pish, no indeed, Choose then; I say you shall not go, you shall not; Whip your ill nature; get you gone then.

From Venice Preserved A Tragedy by Otway, Thomas

The face of this lady was plain, decidedly; but redeemed by a look of sense and shrewdness altogether unmixed with ill nature.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

I asked, with only a partial humoring of his ill nature.

From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine

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 Burns, Robert