ill humour
noun
a disagreeable or sullen mood; bad temper
ill-humouredly
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a word derived from
ill humour.
Example Sentences
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“Yes,” said Cynthia, rather ill-humouredly, for Harry had not been there that evening, “I see her, and she looks very poorly.”
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
The student looked drowsily and ill-humouredly at the curtained windows of a mansion by which the mail cart drove.
From The Witch and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Payton answered, ill-humouredly; "I think it's I——" "Ah, you are right again, to be sure!"
From The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman
Her brother was ill-humouredly surveying the signs of occupancy of the debatable ground.
From Strawberry Acres by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
Corvick at all events wrote me from Paris a little ill-humouredly.
From Embarrassments by Henry James
