ill-naturedly
- a word derived from ill-natured.
Example Sentences
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Then, after a few moments' silence, he very ungraciously and ill-naturedly gave orders that peasant Viaud be released from prison, and the sheep sent back.
From Gabriel and the Hour Book by Everhart, Adelaide
"Only one thing required—cold roast beef and plum pudding," Mousie said ill-naturedly, as she looked at it.
From The Oyster by Peer
You know I wouldn’t dream of speaking about it ill-naturedly, and if that fellow wasn’t blind with rage I could have explained it to him in about five minutes.”
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
She gave him a little punch on the arm—not ill-naturedly, for she was rather amused.
From The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Mitford, Bertram
‘She is enthusiastic about Father Mathew, reads Dickens voraciously, takes to Carlyle, but thinks his appearance rather against him—talks much and with great spirit of people, but never ill-naturedly.’
From East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
