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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Five minutes or so afterward he heard the shooting of bolts and the rattling down of a chain, the door was opened, and a pretty-looking maidservant, with sleep still in her eyes, confronted him ill-humouredly.
From In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First by Lancelot Speed
Once Thor struck the scent of another grizzly, and he rumbled ill-humouredly.
From The Grizzly King by James Oliver Curwood
“You can hear a self-satisfied fool talking,” said the boatswain, ill-humouredly.
From The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn
Those, also, I said to myself ill-humouredly, were probably stage jewels….
From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee
He began ill-humouredly staring at the houses, trying to think of something else.
From Crime and Punishment by Constance Garnett
