Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition.
- adj. Spiteful; nasty: an ill-natured retort.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a bad nature or character.
- Having a bad temper; churlish; crabbed; surly; spiteful: as, an ill-natured person.
- Indicating ill nature.
- Of uncertain temper; petulant; peevish; intractable.
Wiktionary
- adj. bad-tempered, irritable or malevolent
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; -- of people. Opposite of
good-natured . - adj. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful.
- adj. rare Intractable; not yielding to culture.
- adj. not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable. Opposite of
agreeable .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
Examples
“You may think me ill-natured, but if you consider how hard it is to swallow an injury done by a person for whom I have such tenderness, you may begin to understand my distress.”
“Bailey has made this ill-natured drama look as if it has a heart.”
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“Some ill-natured folks might think that my thesis was undermined by the contests for 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and (until recently) 2011.”
“The brethren of the aggiornamentist - brotherly-love persuasion have once again shown themselves to be thoroughly ill-natured and petty.”
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“Some have followed the ongoing line of ill-natured attack intending more to be argumentative than contributory to a dialogue.”
The Huffington Post: Russell Bishop: What We Need Are A Few Good Cynics
““A noisy and ill-natured wrangling, about the designs of the framers or opposers of the constitution, can answer no other purpose than to injure or disgrace us.””
“Well, one swallow don't make a summer, or one ill-natured agitator a revolt - no doubt what I'm telling you now about barrack-room discontent among the sepoys looks strong evidence of trouble brewing, but it didn't seem so bad then.”
“I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature.”
“Stevens marched 'em up and down for an hour, while I watched from the veranda (chiefs of staff don't drill, you see), and a more ill-natured parade I never saw.”
“Muslims celebrate Ramadan by refraining from eating, drinking, sexual conduct, smoking, and indulging in anything that is in excess or ill-natured, from dawn to dusk.”
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