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Meanings of bad humour in English

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Usage of bad humour in English
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The evening was passed in grumbling: everybody was in a bad humour.
Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879
2
The men are in a bad humour and the weather is hot.
Marietta: A Maid of Venice
3
He was in bad humour; Don Giustino had got on his nerves.
South Wind
4
The fact is that his lordship was in an exceedingly bad humour.
Captain Blood
5
It puts me in a bad humour, and I lose my enthusiasm.
Clair de Lune / A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes
6
In his pale, pimpled face were traces of incapability and bad humour.
The Goose Man
7
Of course she was in a bad humour and gave him short answers.
Dubliners
8
They have it in for Belgium, and are in bad humour.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
9
He had returned from the Oaks in a very bad humour.
The Duke's Children
10
He was in a bad humour as he came down from the loft.
The Nebuly Coat
11
I left the house in bad humour and walked slowly towards the school.
Dubliners
12
He was in a very bad humour on account of some domestic difficulties.
The Firm of Girdlestone
13
But one day Guy, Count of Ponthieu, was in a very bad humour.
Stories from English History
14
The Duke de Morlay's bad humour vented itself against Count Styvens.
The Idol of Paris
15
In the morning I woke up with a headache and in a bad humour.
Love and Other Stories
16
He was in a bad humour, for Anna had been unbearable in her exactions.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
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Bad humour through the time
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