ill-natured
adjective
having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition.
ill-naturedly
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a word derived from
ill-natured.
Example Sentences
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He shook his head and opened his eyes ill-naturedly.
From Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) by Hayward Keniston
The Mother Superior smiled ironically, but not ill-naturedly.
From The House of Martha by Frank Richard Stockton
Houghton, I hear, has written ill-naturedly about Panizzi; but the book is as full as an egg of mistakes, and of things worse than mistakes, so that even remonstrance would be thrown away.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
But these lads ill-naturedly repulsed the young stranger; they felt jealous, fearing that she would now be preferred to them.
From The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
You speak ill-naturedly of everybody, and are cross with me on my birthday!
From She and I, Volume 1 by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
