ill-natured

ill-na·tured

adjective

Having a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition.
Spiteful; nasty: an ill-natured retort.

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ill′-na′tured·ly
adverb

ill′-na′tured·ness
noun

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Adjective

(comparative more ill-natured, superlative most ill-natured)

bad-tempered, irritable or malevolent

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These were mostly ill-natured, and mostly have a merely local application.
Modius Salium, a Collection of Pieces of Humour, chiefly ill-natured personal stories, was published at Oxford in 1751, 12mo.
Pelletan's indiscreet speeches did him no good; and he became a common subject for ill-natured caricatures.
His very proper unwilli gness to stoop to deny an accusation, that would have been .o disgraceful if it had been true, made ill-natured and silly.
Only the interest of the matter prevents one from thinking of Rivarol's ill-natured remark upon Condorcet, that he wrote with opium on a page of lead.

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