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Ill-humored   /ɪl-hjˈumərd/   Listen
Ill-humored

adjective
1.
Brusque and surly and forbidding.  Synonyms: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humoured.  "A crusty old man" , "His curmudgeonly temper" , "Gruff manner" , "A gruff reply"






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"Ill-humored" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Reynal for his credulity, went over to my host's lodge, took down my rifle, walked out a mile or two on the prairie, saw an old bull standing alone, crawled up a ravine, shot him and saw him escape. Then, quite exhausted and rather ill-humored, I walked back to the village. By a strange coincidence, Reynal's prediction had been verified; for the first persons whom I saw were the two trappers, Rouleau and Saraphin, coming to meet me. These men, as the reader may possibly recollect, had left our party about a fortnight before. They ...
— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... of her young protege only made the black and jealous Rowski more ill-humored. "How long is it, Sir Prince of Cleves," said he, "that the churls who wear your livery permit themselves to wear the ornaments of noble knights? Who but a noble dare wear ringlets such as yon springald's? Ho, ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Ill-humored" :   crusty, ill-natured, gruff, ill-humoured



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