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

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ill nature

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

Still less had it ever anything of ill nature or sarcasm.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar

"I never will be so forward again to suspect piety of ill nature."

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

Mrs. Portal talked scandal herself and enjoyed it, but she didn't backbite, which is the difference between good and ill nature.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley

Still, I gained an advantage even from his ill nature, as I was thus somewhat accustomed to go aloft before the ship was in the open sea, and exposed to rough weather.

From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Alfred Pearse