ill humor
noun
a disagreeable or surly mood.
ill-humoredly
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a word derived from
ill humor.
Example Sentences
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There were more than 5,000 people turned away, nine of whom took their disappointment so ill-humoredly that they were arrested for being disorderly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jasper laughed, not ill-humoredly, and went on, leading them on around Roke Knoll.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Do you believe in God?" he asked, ill-humoredly.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
"I don't care to know him," the guest replied, somewhat ill-humoredly, his restless eyes indicating that his thoughts had just returned from a journey out in the world somewhere, as they finally settled on Tug.
From The Mystery of the Locks by Edgar Watson Howe
"What set the father out wid talking I do' know?" she inquired a little ill-humoredly.
From Strangers and Wayfarers by Sarah Orne Jewett
