ill-humor

Let us make real effort to be cheerful and joyful; ill-humor and bad temper must never mar our conduct.

Septuagesima

Let us make real effort to be cheerful and joyful; ill-humor and bad temper must never mar our conduct.

From the Mail

But the mood of devilry that seemed to have taken possession of him over the course of the morning and in the face of her ill-humor was really quite irresistible now, almost as irresistible as the lure of putting his hands on her again had been.

Shameless

But the mood of devilry that seemed to have taken possession of him over the course of the morning and in the face of her ill-humor was really quite irresistible now, almost as irresistible as the lure of putting his hands on her again had been.

Shameless

The old boy has been very happy; amusing himself with cutting paper, looking at pictures, riding on his horse, and all the time prating to me — without a moment of ill-humor (which, indeed, is hardly among his possibilities) or ill spirits.

A Different Stripe:

The old boy has been very happy; amusing himself with cutting paper, looking at pictures, riding on his horse, and all the time prating to me — without a moment of ill-humor (which, indeed, is hardly among his possibilities) or ill spirits.

Commonplace: Father's Day, Sweet and Sour

Yet a growing population doesn't sufficiently account for the spread of nannying by strangers -- what Christopher Hitchens calls "all of this re-infantilizing" -- and concomitant ill-humor.

Silent Rage

Yet a growing population doesn't sufficiently account for the spread of nannying by strangers and concomitant ill-humor.

Silent Rage

Yet a growing population doesn't sufficiently account for the spread of nannying by strangers -- what Christopher Hitchens calls "all of this re-infantilizing" -- and concomitant ill-humor.

Silent Rage

So humiliated were our enemies by the guffaws of the mob, that in gloomy ill-humor they beat a retreat to plot revenge.

Satyricon