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Meanings of ill-humoured in English

Brusque and surly and forbidding.

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Usage of ill-humoured in English
1
Moreover the place is wearisome, and I am fanciful and often ill-humoured.
Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus
2
The miller felt the hours hang heavily, and he became listless and ill-humoured.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
3
All this time he was hardly awake and a little ill-humoured in consequence.
The Darling and Other Stories
4
Marius shrugged his shoulders; his face suggested that he was ill-humoured.
St. Martin's Summer
5
His temper has changed, too: he has grown ill-humoured and irritable.
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
6
Kashtanka stretched, yawned and, cross and ill-humoured, walked about the room.
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
7
As usual, his face looked anxious and ill-humoured, and his beard was uncombed.
The Wife, and Other Stories
8
They are not ill-humoured, and they are not peevishly arrogant, except upon provocation.
Vittoria — Volume 2
9
Annas was a thin ill-humoured-looking old man, with a scraggy beard.
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
10
If I were ill-humoured I would say you marked the cards!
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
11
Mr. Bonteen, however, was not beaten by much, and was in consequence somewhat ill-humoured.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
12
Finishing the service after a fashion, dissatisfied and ill-humoured, he set off for Shuteykino.
The Bishop and Other Stories
13
I get ill-humoured and indifferent, and then leave off.'
A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
14
He was gloomy, ill-humoured, taciturn, was afraid of nobody, and refused to recognize any authority.
The Wife, and Other Stories
15
This he said in a tone which he himself felt to be ill-humoured and almost petulant.
The Eustace Diamonds
16
He was not an ill-humoured man in reality.
Greifenstein
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