ill humour

British  

noun

1. a disagreeable or sullen mood; bad temper

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Other Word Forms

• ill-humoured
  adjective
• ill-humouredly
  adverb

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Example Sentences

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ill humour

Mrs. Brown was in a very ill humour.

From Rachel Gray by Julia Kavanagh

His letters were curt and reserved, and unsuccessfully concealed his ill humour.

From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

"Come, come," retorted James, with a good deal of quickness and ill humour, "don't be trying to come over me with your lecturing and cant."

From Christmas Stories by Edward Berens

The only work of his evidently written in ill humour with mankind, is the Troilus, which, both in idea and execution, is the most bitter of satires.

From A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy by William Spalding

But he happened to be in an ill humour, and refused her, telling her he had none.

From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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